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Clare Fischer, a Grammy-winning pianist, composer and arranger who crossed freely from jazz to Latin and pop music, working with Dizzy Gillespie, George Shearing, Natalie Cole and Joao Gilberto as well as Paul McCartney, Prince, Spike Lee and Michael Jackson, has died. Read More

Hot jazz pianist David Boeddinghaus faced single combat" with JCJB pianist John Sheridan for a rousing boogie-woogie on Honky Tonk Train Blues" by Meade Lux Lewis. Read More

Born in 1919 in the Battersea district of London to working-class Cockney parents, Shearing was one of nine children and was blind from birth. Read More

Join us for an evening of swinging jazz standards with some soothing ballads and sizzling boogie woogie thrown in as the Library presents The Gail Storm Quartet. Read More

Soprano Sax: The Story Of A Skinny Horn

  • 9:14 AM Oct 12
  • Source: NPR

Sidney Bechet was the first jazz musician to use soprano saxophone extensively, and is widely regarded as the grand master of the instrument. Read More

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Meade "Lux" Lewis

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One of the three great boogie-woogie pianists (along with Albert Ammons and Pete Johnson) whose appearance at John Hammond's... Read the full Meade "Lux" Lewis bio.

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