James P. Johnson

Jazz at Lincoln Center is bringing classic American popular song into its fold with the appointment of the singer and pianist Michael Feinstein as director of its new popular music series. Read More

Recorded jazz is still under a century old, but in a little over nine decades an enormous quantity of music has amassed. Read More

Catch a rare performance by the jazz impresario on Friday, November 13, at 8:00 pm when George Wein brings his Newport All-Stars to Jazz at Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Read More

It also happens to be fitting that his old-time jazz trio is starting its current tour in Lodi, just the sort of small-town American community Garrison Keillor has so pleasantly and wittily ennobled for so many years. Read More

Vijay Iyer Trio - (ACT) - In a year that has been filled with excellent recordings, few have received more press than pianist Vijay Iyer's first piano trio CD. Read More

The Jazzinstitut's Jazz News will keep you up-to-date with news of the jazz world which we collect, summarize, and issue via e-mail about once a week. Read More

Nat Hentoff, a regular contributor to this column, not only writes about the legendary figures of jazz, he also knew most of them on a first name basis. Read More

Hard to believe it's been 7 years since Steve Lehman graduated from Wesleyan but not surprising when one sees how busy he's been. Read More

I can't remember the last time pre-WW2 jazz created such a buzz. Read More

A definition of righteousness: about 75 people, crammed into the West Village club Smalls, watching a series of pianists play James P. Johnson on a grand piano in a benefit concert to buy a headstone for his grave. Read More