The Piano Lesson director Malcolm Washington & cast discuss the challenges of adapting August Wilson’s play: “It was so ...

Accompanying their church choir, a young pianist named John Stephens, later known as John Legend, and his brother were a two-person orchestra. “I didn’t have bass or guitar or anything playing with me ...

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra is showing off the addition of a brand new concert grand piano to its musical family, provided through the generosity of the Wilfred and Joan Larson Fund at the ...

Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign ...

The season has changed, if reluctantly. Time to put the storm windows on the old clapbord house, tune the grand piano and ...

In 2023, Batiste sat down with CNN’s Chris Wallace for an episode of “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace,” which streams on Max.

If are looking to find its true essence, though, no one individual fits the description more than 75-year-old keyboardist and composer Rick Wakeman. Wakeman has since been in and out of the official ...

Paul McCartney entered the '70s with the Beatles in his rearview window. They'd obviously be quite an act to follow. Then ...

When Grammy-award winner Jon Batiste was a kid, say, 9 or 10 years old, he moved between musical worlds — participating in local, classical piano competitions by day, then ''gigging in night haunts in ...

The European Film Academy has revealed the nominations in the animated feature film category of the European Film Awards.

In 1968, Gram Parsons of The Byrds befriended Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones and introduced them to many country songs. Phil Kaufman, a road manager, recounted how Parsons and ...