Joey De Francesco on the KeyB Organ and Touring with David Sanborn
Mar 02, 2010
During a recent three-night stint with chart-owning sax slinger David Sanborn at the premier jazz club on the west coast - Yoshi's in Oakland, California - jazz organ great Joey DeFrancesco spent his sound check with executive More...
What's Next Zenph Re-Performance: Not Your Grandparents’ Player Piano!
Mar 01, 2010
Zenph’s John Q. Walker has had the idea for his Re-Performance series of recordings since studying piano as a child with famed pianist and educator (and one-time Keyboard columnist) Ruth Slenczynska, in Edwardsville, More...
Love Girls Tech-House Terrible Twosome
Mar 01, 2010
Jordi Kramp (left) and Frits Klaver of Love Girls.   Sound: Tech-house in all its forms. Favorite Gear: Akai’s APC40 controller [for Ableton Live]. We use it in the studio and for our live performances. We can’t live More...
Majorminor Lauren Fox: Junior Jazzer
Mar 01, 2010
“Lauren Fox is not only a darned good jazz pianist, but she also sends an incredibly positive message about contributing, working hard, and being responsible,” renowned New Jersey-based band director and music teacher Matt More...
Doug Bickel: The Student Becomes the Teacher
Mar 01, 2010
Jazz pianist Doug Bickel never planned on a career in music — much less returning to his Alma mater, the legendary Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, to direct the jazz piano department where he once studied. More...
On Our iPod . . .Music For Our Future
Mar 01, 2010
We’ll never know what music will be like in the future, or on other worlds — but this set offers some inspired guesses. Curated by Keyboard columnist and CreateDigitalMusic.com blogger Peter Kirn, XLR8R magazine, and More...
Weekend Warrior: Robert Martinez
Mar 01, 2010
Webpage: myspace.com theemajestics Day job: I’ve worked at California State University, Bakersfield for the past 30 years as an automotive technician. How I got started: I had my first piano lesson at age six. When I was More...
Page McConnell & The Joy of Phish: The Planet's Top Concert Draw Reunites, and Fan Jump for Joy
Mar 01, 2010
To the uninitiated, Phish is hard to explain. To their core fans — even harder. How do you describe Phish to someone who has never heard the band or worse, has the wrong idea? Misconceptions usually boil down to some More...
Paul Shaffer - The Soul of Late Night TV
Mar 01, 2010
“A piano decays, but an organ sustains,” Paul Shaffer tells me, recounting his earliest exposure to the sound of the mighty Hammond B-3 organ. “Feeling that for the first time as a small child — the sense that you had the power More...
Road Warrior Matt Rollings: Country’s Keyboard King
Mar 01, 2010
Matt Rollings never planned on an A-list career in the Nashville music scene, but he was certainly ready when it came calling. “I’m not from Nashville, but I spent 20 years there from’86 until 2006,” the now Los Angeles-based More...
Onstage and Backstage at the Billy Joel - Elton John Tour!
Feb 25, 2010
Billy Joel and Elton John’s “Face to Face” tour is perhaps the grandest event in piano-driven rock ever. We recently got to see not one but two full concerts, and to hear both of these legendary piano men in the same night, More...
Rachel Z on Jazzing Up Pop Classics
Feb 16, 2010
In another series of intimate video interviews and lessons re-upped from the now-defunct keyboardmag.tv website, jazz ingenue and Peter Gabriel keyboardist Rachel Z gets candid with editor Stephen Fortner, and shows you in More...
LIGHTS Video Interview
Feb 09, 2010
Editor Stephen Fortner caught up with the Juno Award-winning, synth-slinging electropop songwriter before her show at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco. She plays keytar. She plays World of Warcraft. She has her own comic book More...
PHISH Preview Exclusive Video
Feb 08, 2010
Our upcoming March cover story is on Phish, the top-selling live concert draw in the world. They've reunited with a new tour to support their brand new studio album, Joy. To whet your appetite for the story, here's keyboardist More...
Weekend Warrior: Danny Darnall
Feb 01, 2010
Webpage: myspace.com crushed velvetband Day job: I’m a personal injury attorney. I’ve been practicing for 33 years now, and have my own practice. How I got started: I learned to play guitar at age six. Watching the More...
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