Monty Alexander has been having his way with his repertoire under the Telarc umbrella, and the results so far have been uniformly fine. Impressions in Blue is the Jamaican pianist’s fifth outing for ...

Always one of the hardest-swinging mainstream pianists in the business, Jamaican-born Monty Alexander lately has become one of the most enterprising of that breed, investigating his island heritage on ...

According to an interview with Monty Alexander conducted by Judith Schlesinger of the Jazz Institute of Chicago in 1999: “All musicians “play music” but not always in the fullest sense of that word.

Pianist Monty Alexander, bassist John Clayton and drummer Jeff Hamilton have all headlined on Aspen stages in recent years — but the trio has never played here together. The brilliant jazz trio is ...

It's generally a good sign for any show if the players onstage are smiling and laughing more than anyone else in the room. If there's been one main constant to Monty Alexander's music over his 59-year ...

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Get the full details on all jazz programming coming up at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater running December 20 through January 1. Performances appearing at Birdland Jazz Club include the Monty ...

TRAVERSE CITY - The last time he played the Dennos Museum Center, Monty Alexander shared the bill. This time, audiences will get the full Monty. Fresh off an extended engagement at the Blue Note jazz ...

What a pleasure to read your editorial on the Monty Alexander Trio's superb jazz concert at the Avalon on Sept. 5. My husband and I have been fans of good jazz for 50 years, and this performance ...

(Note: Yes, I did have a camera with me last night. But the batteries were dead. I’ll do better tonight.) Yardena killed anyway. She drew from her unique repertoire: 500-year-old Sephardic folk songs ...

He didn’t mean to, but Monty Alexander put this critic in the hot seat on Thursday night. “In 1972, I was 27,” he explained from the bandstand at Georgetown’s Blues Alley. “I was playing the piano ...