Last month, I signed up to perform Debussy’s Clair de Lune for my Presto piano performance group. Once I committed, I was motivated to practice this piece with intensity. Playing piano is an important ...

In 1998, four years into my life as a single mother, I bought a used upright piano for my daughter. It’s the closest I’ve ever come to feeling like I could fly. For two years, from age 9, Cait had ...

“Destroy your reputation: jazz, booze, and butter.” That’s the slogan for pianist Chad Willet’s new establishment, Le Piano. Located in Rogers Park’s Glenwood Avenue Arts District, Le Piano is an ...

Olivia Jones-Hall taps her Converse-covered foot on the piano pedal, engrossed in the music as her silver-ringed fingers glide over the ivory keys. The 14-year-old with thick brown curls spends hours ...

Carroll, who died Sunday, started recording in the late 1940s, when female jazz musicians were still considered a novelty. Originally broadcast in 2003. This is FRESH AIR. Jazz pianist and vocalist ...

How piano lessons — and a middle school friendship — changed my life. By Jennifer Finney Boylan Contributing Opinion Writer “I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12,” ...

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — Hard of hearing, Thomas Edison found a unique way to appreciate piano music. As someone played, the great inventor would lean in close to the instrument, right above the keys, and he ...