Longtime Bay Area pianist Larry Vuckovich performs at Palo Alto restaurant and jazz spot Meyhouse on Dec. 6. Vuckovich, who studied and performed with Vince Guaraldi, pays tribute to the piano great ...

T.S. Monk (born Thelonious Sphere Monk Jr.) is used to answering questions about his pop, bebop pianist/composer Thelonious Monk. The 54-year-old jazz drummer, vocalist, composer and record label ...

JAKI BYARD: Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the "Late Late Show." I'm going into my act. This is my last set. So we don't know what is going to happen. BIANCULLI: In the 1960s, ...

Pianist, composer and arranger Alex Conde has a unique identity; he is a flamenco musician who combines flamenco with his jazz background. After the broad Latin fusion of Origins (Uprising/Ropeadope, ...

This article was first published at All About Jazz in January 2002. Jazz piano and world music rhythm make an enchanting pair. With the popularization of world beat music, jazz musicians nurtured on ...

In the fall of 1969 the great French bebop pianist Henri Renaud brought Thelonious Monk into a television studio in Paris Just Monk a grand piano and two cameras no audience no sidemen no emcee no ...

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