In an upcoming MusicLifeandTimes podcast, my partner jazz pianist Kevin Bales and I exchange stories about life on the road as musicians. Unlike most other professions, musicians don’t typically work in the same building every day (or…

The other day I engaged my podcast partner, pianist Kevin Bales, in a discussion of pianists who have influenced him. There were many, he told me, and many more musicians other than pianists whose influences you can…

In light of ongoing racial injustice and the Black Lives Matter movement, universities have been pressured to better represent a more diverse music, to include more Black composers. But too often they’re only picking composers who write…