P>Stride piano was once the rage with such giants as James P. Johnson, Willie "the Lion" Smith, Duke Ellington and reaching its zenith in the hands of Fats Waller. Perhaps the best known proponents of ...

PITTSFIELD — As a solo act, Matt DeChamplain is a one-man band at the keyboard. The Connecticut-based jazz pianist is rooted in stride piano, a highly energetic style developed in Harlem during the ...

Mike Lipskin and Dick Hyman: Stride virtuosos, friends since 1965, reunite across pair of grand pianos "I learn something from Dick every time we play, the way he plays melodies, his use of harmony," ...

Judy Carmichael may not have the look of a stereotypical stride piano player, but on Wednesday at the Cerritos Center’s Sierra Room Theatre, Carmichael wasted no time getting down to business with a ...

This young pianist-composer revisits the stride piano sound of the roaring 20s on a set of classics and originals with charm to spare Among a small avalanche of new piano albums, all of them brilliant ...

Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of piano players like the mention of stride piano. This seemingly impossible old style is like ragtime on steroids and pushes jazz pianists to the limit. The ...

On The Late Show, a set of previously unheard solo music from 1979, the jazz pianist employs techniques like suspenseful dropouts. He had a rare ability to sound archaic — and way ahead of his time.

The cliches supplied in the programme blurb about this concert were wrong. The pianist isn't an Earl Hines-Jelly Roll Morton specialist. He's been a pupil of Barry Harris, and his music includes ...