Kenny Barron, playing at Ronnie Scott’s last Friday, brought to improvisation a mixture of intelligence and creativity in which excess has no place. Even though many of the technically astounding runs ...

The career of pianist Kenny Barron is a particularly outstanding example of how the jazz business is supposed to work: The best younger players start as sidemen to established bandleaders, and ...

The bandstand was filled with players who presumably were very happy with the outcome of Super Bowl LIX. “This band is known as ‘Four of Us Are from Philly and One of Us Is Not,'” joked legendary ...