I had never heard of Nellie Lutcher when she appeared on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz during the mid-1980s, but I was taken with her right away. With her playful vocals and swinging piano, Lutcher ...

It's easy to carp about the death of jazz and young jazz artists' ignorance of the music's history. Both are soft targets, especially since so many young jazz players seem almost proud that they know ...

Pianist and composer Joe Sample (1939-2014) began studying his instrument at age 5 and was exposed to a variety of musical traditions as a child. While still in high school in the late 1950s, he ...

On this week's Piano Jazz: a 1986 session with trumpeter, singer and pianist Roy "Little Jazz" Eldridge. Host Marian McPartland first met Eldridge in 1950, when she invited him to play with her and ...

Sheik of Araby (3:38) -- Eh, la bas (3:26) -- Lil' Liza Jane (4:45) -- Just a closer walk with thee (3:06) -- Bill Bailey (4:31) -- Mama don't allow (4:37) -- Jazz it ...