At the start of his new solo-piano release, “Borrowed Roses” (Top Stop Music), Gonzalo Rubalcaba takes a straightforward approach to the first dozen notes of Billy Strayhorn’s “Chelsea Bridge.” By the ...

Jazz Sessions, a new feature, presents some of today's most exciting musicians as they chat and perform in the studio with public radio hosts from around the country. I've been after Keith Jarrett for ...

In a recent study at Johns Hopkins, jazz musicians improvised with each other while sitting in MRI machines. No doubt many of them were used to playing in tight spaces, but this was, all the same, odd ...