It was a dark and foggy night, and Mauro Ffortissimo, a pianist and sculptor, gathered four burly men and rolled a baby grand piano on its side, like a lopsided wheel, out onto the bluffs overlooking ...

is the first thing you hear in a piano concert. The melody note sounds a few thousandths of a second before others marked simultaneously in the score. And pianists unconsciously strike such notes ...

Smithsonian Collection of Recordings: RD 039 (A 21011--A 21014); A4 21010 (A 21011--A 21014); DIDP 071657--DIDP 071660. Solo jazz piano music and jazz ensembles with piano. Compact discs; remastered.

Ninety-two years ago today, one of the key figures in the development of the Nashville Sound was born in Louisiana.

The silhouette of an upside-down cross, backlit in a murky window, marks the exterior of Saint Vitus Bar in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood. Early on a Thursday evening, the inside is populated by ...