This ‘American Masters’ presentation focuses on the pianist and entertainer, who found success in golden-age Hollywood and on TV before fading from public view during the McCarthy era.

Pioneering jazz pianist-singer Nat King Cole is best known for classics such as “Mona Lisa” and “The Christmas Song” as well ...

Calvin Leon Smith became interested in theater while a student at Cordova High. Now, he's starring on Broadway as Clifford ...

The Berkshires' Academy for Advanced Musical Studies has opened registration for its seventh annual Summer Jazz Band Day Camp.

Acclaimed Afro-Cuban jazz pianist Elio Villafranca is set to take the stage Saturday at Prior-Jollek Hall on the Antilles ...

Multi-talented performer Jon Batiste sang the national anthem before the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles face off ...

Before the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles played in Super Bowl 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana, jazz and soul ...

Musician Jon Batiste opened a jazz club at Baha Mar in the Bahamas — here's why it's a game changer. Jon Batiste likes warm ...

Twenty-three-year-old jazz keyboard player Matthew Whitaker has been blind ... s Apollo Theatre Hall of Fame Induction at the age of ten, and later studied at the Juilliard School and the Manhattan ...

He then went on to attend the Juilliard School, earning both a Bachelor of Music in 2008 and a Master of Music in 2011, in jazz studies. While at Juilliard, he released his second album, Live in New ...

Fader named him a “jazz prodigy,” and he has toured with jazz musicians ... When a friend from his Grammy band days urged him to apply to Juilliard, Cook knew he had to reach for it. The audition was ...

He studied at the Juilliard School. His genres range from Jazz to Hip hop to R&B. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. He was the bandleader and musical director for "The Late ...