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 ...

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Bay Area Kenny Barron fans are in for a treat this month. Actually, they are in for a number of different treats, as the legendary jazz pianist visits SFJAZZ Center to perform four very different ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Pianist Kenny Barron is a triple winner in the 2015 Jazz Awards presented by the Jazz Journalists Association. Barron topped the balloting in the pianist category, while his duo with ...

The Kenny Barron Trio (left) and Chief Adjuah (right) will play San Antonio’s Carver Community Cultural Center on separate nights. Credit: Left: Levy Stabb; Right: Eric Ryan Anderson San Antonio jazz ...

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 ...

Kenny Barron Trio, “Book of Intuition” (Impulse). Hallelujah. You’d think one of the most fluent and engaging of all veteran jazz pianists would have had more of a chance over the years to record with ...

Jazz doesn’t lack for elder statesmen. But there’s few in that crowded field who can claim to have started their careers playing behind Dizzy Gillespie, shared the band stand with the likes of Freddie ...

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 ...

Healdsburg Jazz Festival Executive Director Gayle Okumura Sullivan enthusiastically shares what Downbeat magazine said about the annual event: "All killer, no filler." The description fits 2025's fest ...