Nothing adds organic character to a track like live piano, but recording one isn’t easy. We lift the piano lid and talk about ...

Producer Daniel Lanois has won six Grammys working with U2, Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan and others. For his new album, he returns to the piano.

Caterpillar redesigned its top-selling motor grader this year, and we take a look at the many features and options for the ...

“I thought of myself as a performer who had died. The piano was synonymous with sorrow for me.” These words came from pianist Lee Hoon, 54 years old, who authored the essay *I Am a Left-Handed Pianist ...

Because I was scheduled to get made up and miked for pre-recording an upcoming Chopin Talk intermission feature, I had to ...

The IJ is reprinting some of the late Beth Ashley’s columns. This is from 2014. By the time you read this, Rowland and I will ...

On one hand, Elton John has penned nearly 500 songs. On the other, he has performed so much over the years that Saturday night’s show at the Toyota Center was his 26th in 50-some years. So he has a ...

Filip Lech, Culture.pl’s music journalist and editor, and Iza Smelczyńska, musicologist and improviser, discuss the first round of the Chopin Competition.

While most people associate Koji Kondo with Nintendo’s music, due to his work on the Mario and Zelda games, I think of Hirokazu Tanaka because of his work on practically everything else. Hirokazu ...