St. Martin’s Press, 496 pp., $35. In bookstores Oct. 16. Paradise may be a great place to live in, but its implicit lack of conflict makes it a lousy home for a dramatist. In similar fashion, it’s ...

SHALL WE PLAY THAT ONE TOGETHER? The Life and Art of Jazz Piano Legend Marian McPartland, by Paul de Barros. St. Martin's Press, 496 pp., $35. Paradise may be a great place to live, but the implicit ...

Marian McPartland pianist, composer and host of Public Television’s longest running show, “Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz,” died at her home in Port Washington last week at the age of 95. National ...

Distinguished jazz writer Paul de Barros reads from his highly-praised biography of jazz pianist and radio host Marian McPartland, Shall We Play That One Together? The Life and Art of Jazz Piano ...

Jazz great Marian McPartland still gets keyed up when she's sitting at the piano. At 95, she doesn't get to play the Steinway grand in a living room corner of her Port Washington home as much as she ...

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If Marian McPartland had done nothing more than bring jazz to millions of listeners through her long-running National Public Radio program “Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz,” she would rank among the ...

After beginning her career in British music halls, Marian McPartland came to the United States and became a most unexpected jazz star. She forged a distinctive style on piano, made scores of albums ...

After last year’s uncounted centennial tributes to the great men of jazz — from Dizzy Gillespie to Thelonious Monk to Mongo Santamaria — let’s not forget a jazz woman who shattered many glass ceilings ...

When Marian McPartland was three years old, she heard her mother play Chopin on the piano; after her mother finished, Marian climbed up onto the piano bench and played the same piece note for note.

For years, Marian McPartland was defined by an offhand comment that critic Leonard Feather made in the jazz magazine Down Beat in 1951. McPartland, wrote the British-born Feather, had "three hopeless ...