After contributing six decades of musical direction and genius, Randy Weston remains one of the world's foremost pianists and composers today, a true innovator and visionary. Encompassing the vast ...

There's no better argument for the notion that jazz keeps you young than Randy Weston. Appearing last month at the Blue Note in support of Zep Tepi, the Brooklyn-born Weston showed that at eighty he ...

Turned off by the American public’s matchstick attention span for jazz, in the late ’60s, pianist Randy Weston left his home in Brooklyn for Morocco. It was in Africa that Weston helped change the ...

For Randy Weston, Africa was the wellspring of music — the spiritual and rhythmic source of blues, African American spirituals, samba, bossa nova and, above all, jazz. Weston, who was 92 when he died ...

After contributing six decades of musical direction and genius, Randy Weston remains one of the world's foremost pianists and composers of today, a true innovator and visionary. Born in Brooklyn N.Y., ...

PIANIST Randy Weston has spent a considerable amount of time in Africa, living in different areas and operating his own club for a few years in Morocco. Halfway through his opening set Tuesday at the ...

No band is more aptly named than Randy Weston’s African Rhythms Sextet. The African influence is apparent. Weston himself has been described as a griot: a traveling musician-historian with an intimate ...

At the height of the Cold War, the United States was also fighting a culture war. To counter Soviet propaganda, the U.S. State Department launched a public relations campaign called the Jazz ...

Weston kicks off the session with his tribute to Monk, "A Ballad for T.," which quotes a few bars from Monk's tunes. As a young man, Weston had the chance to spend time with Monk, and before ever ...

Still developing his unique fusion of mainstream jazz and African and Caribbean tunes and rhythms, Randy Weston checked into the Jazz Bakery Tuesday with an unusual twist on the traditional piano trio ...