Pianist Henry Butler is coming to Manhattan to perform next week. The musician was trained and influenced by some of the great Crescent City players. Sara Fishko has an appreciation in this edition of the Fishko Files.

Today in New York, the Conference of Jazz Educators hosts the NEA "Jazz Masters" Awards. One of the recipients is a man in his 90’s, Sara Fishko tells us, and his contribution to the field is vast. Musician-turned-manager John Levy is the subject of the this edition of the Fishko ...

You can now read about jazz in a kind of encyclopedia. It’s about 3 inches thick, with over 800 pages and 59 articles. WNYC’s Sara Fishko says leafing through it is – like the music itself – a positively non-linear experience. Here’s the next Fishko Files....

Keith Jarrett’s new CD, "Radiance," hit record stores on Tuesday – it’s his first solo concert recording since the middle of the 90’s, when illness got in his way. Jarrett talked with Sara Fishko about his process this time around...for this edition of the Fishko Files.

Henry Butler is sometimes called "The Pride of New Orleans." His spectacular piano playing drew Sara Fishko to his home town, where she talked with him about his singular style...

Chick Corea, pianist, composer, improvisor, bandleader...is coming to town early next week. As Sara Fishko tells us, he’s had a career filled with variety...and he’s managed to do it without all that much forward planning involved. Here is the next Fishko Files...

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New York has been celebrating all week the opening of the glittering new Lincoln Center Jazz space in the Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle. Sara Fishko has been listening to jazz, too, in a space that could only ...

At one time, songs had lyrics and they had melodies. At some point, singers began to throw away the words AND the melodies, and the result was some of the most exciting, mouth-curling improvised music ever. Sara Fishko has been listening to scat-singers, and that’s the subject of this edition ...

Jazz legend Dave Brubeck is coming to New York in a few days, to revisit arrangements he and some of his college classmates made together in the 1940's. Sara Fishko found Brubeck at work, recently...and he’s the subject of this edition of the Fishko Files...

Pianist and composer Keith Jarrett has been incredibly prolific as a musician, but he hasn't always been eager to talk about himself. Now he's won a major prize, and he and Sara Fishko sat down recently to talk about his work and his process...here is this edition of the Fishko ...

George Avakian invented the jazz record album, among many other accomplishments. Sara Fishko visited him recently, and they spent the afternoon talking about Avakian's adventures in the early days of jazz, which coincided with the early days of recording. Avakian produced records with Benny Goodman, Dave Brubeck, Sonny Rollins, Miles ...

One of the most important jazz musicians alive is about to have a major birthday. But, as Sara Fishko tells us, that doesn't mean he's paying any attention to it...