For Gabriela Montero music is akin to a first language. The Venezuelan-born pianist and Latin Grammy winner has performed with orchestras around the world, having made a name for herself as a ...

Cover of 'The Hal Leonard Jazz Piano Method: The Player’s Guide to Authentic Stylings.'"; One of the hallmarks of jazz is that its players know how to improvise. So it would seem that the idea of ...

Keyboardist and composer Michael Robinson is well known for performing his genre-defying electronic works on his invention, the Meruvina. He is also an accomplished pianist who has released several ...

In the 18th century, all pianists who performed in public with any regularity were expected to be able to improvise pieces within traditional genres on command. Today, few classical pianists would ...

The late jazz pianist Joan Wildman with WUWM's Maayan Silver at Wildman's house in 2012. The modern piano keyboard has 88 keys. And the late Joan Wildman was a master of all of them. Her ...

Dev Hynes has proven himself to be an artist who is well versed in multiple styles, whether he’s playing R&B as Blood Orange, scoring films like Queen & Slim, or performing classical music. Today he ...

Robinson's improvisations neither attack nor retreat from the substance of these standards. The first of the albums is Not Like Before. Opening with "42nd Street," Robinson initially embraces the ...