The piano trio in jazz is possibly analogous to the string quartet in classical music. Both are established performing vehicles with long, important conventions and traditions but also with a history ...

While Mulgrew Miller has learned from many significant bandleaders, including Betty Carter, Woody Shaw, and Art Blakey, he is quick to name James Williams as one of his greatest musical influences.

For Jazz Night's Crate Digging series, Christian McBride uncovers a concert from his big brother, figuratively speaking: the underrated piano innovator Mulgrew Miller. After devoting a large portion ...

Whenever the splendid modern jazz pianist Mulgrew Miller performs, musical sparks fly and listeners are moved. That's what happened Monday, when Miller -- just back from a five-night stand at ...

The word that kept coming to mind during pianist Mulgrew Miller’s performance at the Jazz Bakery was “craftsmanship.” The feeling that kept surfacing was pure, unadulterated dynamism. Miller’s great ...

Mulgrew Miller, who made hundreds of recordings as one of the most skilled and admired jazz pianists of his era, died May 29 at a hospital in Allentown, Pa. He was 57 and had complications from a ...

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*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Listening to just one master jazz pianist is a privilege and a pleasure. So the experience should be doubly sublime when Kenny ...

KALAMAZOO -- The music of jazz pianist Mulgrew Miller was easy to get into and hard to leave. Miller selected numbers by Duke Ellington, Hank Mobley and his originals "Carousel" and "Eleventh Hour," ...

CARBONDALE - Born in 1955 in Greenwood, Miss., Mulgrew Miller played country, gospel, R&B for dance bands and the blues until he saw "The Oscar Peterson Trio" perform on television at age 15. Although ...

Two premier stylists who left us with too little music—the pianist Mulgrew Miller, who died at age fifty-seven, in 2013, and the trumpeter Roy Hargrove, who was forty-nine when he passed, in 2018—came ...

Two performances by the trumpeter and pianist are collected on “In Harmony,” a new double album that takes on standards via a fresh lens. By Giovanni Russonello On a snowy evening in January 2006, the ...