The history of the jazz piano starts in 1899. By my count, 20 pianists changed the direction of jazz over the course of 75 years. Here are 20 sample tracks in chronological order of those pianists.

Mangione and bassist Gary Mazzaroppi team up with host Marian McPartland to perform dynamic trio work in a session from 1999. The set includes... Chuck Mangione On Piano Jazz Flugelhorn player Chuck ...

At 26, New Haven native Christian Sands is a rising jazz piano star and three-time Grammy Awards-nominee. A teen protégé of jazz keyboard luminary Billy Taylor, he currently leads his own band and is ...

This is an excellent Jazz piano chord glossary as they go. Keyboard chord glossaries containing dozens of notated chord voicings are a rather common entry on the music publishing market, but this ...

Piano Jazz hits its silver anniversary in April, a landmark that surprises nobody more than venerated host and pianist Marian McPartland. “It’s kind of amazing that we’ve managed to be on the air for ...

This Piano Jazz is a special live session from the 2006 Tanglewood Jazz Festival, with host Marian McPartland joined by a very special guest: singer-songwriter Elvis Costello. Composer, singer and ...

Brazilian pianist, composer, and vocalist Eliane Elias grew up with an affinity for both the music of her home country as well as American jazz. She got her start performing with two renowned ...

For most jazz performers, a song is part of a performance. For Ahmad Jamal, each song was a performance. Over the course of a remarkable eight-decade career, Jamal, who passed away Sunday at the age ...

The iconic vocalist makes an appearance on 'Piano Jazz' and shares his inspirations. Tony Bennett On Piano Jazz Ever-popular song stylist Tony Bennett was McPartland's guest on Piano Jazz for the ...

Chick Corea, a creative keyboardist who spearheaded the jazz fusion movement, died Tuesday at home in Florida. He was 79. The cause was cancer, according to a statement on Corea’s website. “Chick ...

One night in a Japanese jazz kissa changed music listening for me forever. My love for the jazz piano trio began in the most unique way possible. Every now and then, a listening session turns into ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...