Art Tatum

May 2012 marks the 30th anniversary of the release of drummer Chad Wackerman's studio debut with Frank Zappa on Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. Read More

Since first joining forces in 1998 with guitarist and kindred spirit Jordan Officer in her Swing Band, Montreal-based singer Susie Arioli has been casting her seductive spell on jazz fans throughout Canada, and in Europe. Read More

Twenty years after his self-titled R&B debut, and 20 million in record sales later, Brian McKnight says that he's "a jazz musician masquerading as a pop/R&B guy."Read More

Though there is substantial breadth to the membership of jazz royalty, I always feel like certain members get overlooked. Read More

Dizzy Gillespie famously said, "One foot in the past and one in the future," to which could be added – if you are talking about the Wolff & Clark Expedition – with feet firmly planed in the here and now. Read More

And Chick, when I was 11 and played a piano competition in Poland that I won, there on the stage were some jazz tapes being sold. Read More

Acclaimed jazz pianist Jacky Terrasson, 46, is a two-time Grammy nominee for Kindred with Stefon Harris and Into The Blue and has performed at some of the world's most prestigious concert halls and international jazz festivals, from the Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center in the United States to the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, to the long-running Monterey Jazz Festival to the big annual events in Montreal, Holland and the Italian town of Perugia in Umbria. Read More