Carnegie Hall will be the site of a 75th Anniversary concert for maestro Zakir Hussain this Friday, March 6.

The great Brooklyn-born pianist passed last week at age 73 I’m almost afraid to turn on my computer anymore. Seems like every day another Great One has passed. Today it was pianist Richie Beirach, who died at age 78 on Jan. 26 in Hessheim, Germany following a long illness. Best known for his five-decades-long collaboration with saxophonist Dave Liebman, and over 400 acclaimed recordings as a leader or sideman with the likes of Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Randy Brecker, Jack DeJohnette and John...

The ECM guitar great passed away on Sunday, Jan. 18. Here's my remembrances of him along with an interview from 2016.