If you haven't heard the piano trio, Dreamstruck (Marilyn Crispell, Joe Fonda & Harvey Sorgen), put them on your must-listen list. Highly original and free wheeling playing make their two releases ...

Pianist Marilyn Crispell was always primarily known as a stylistic descendant of Cecil Taylor, never resting for a moment as she spewed out endless runs of high invention, cascades of ...

David Greenberger reviews a new CD by Marilyn Crispell. She is considered one of the most versatile pianists of her generation. Over the years Crispell has released several solo recordings but on her ...

The pianist plays free jazz with an evocative and disciplined style. Hear her solo on her composition "Fragments." Marilyn Crispell On Piano Jazz Critics hail pianist Marilyn Crispell as a "luminous ...

The 2025 class of the NEA's Jazz Masters was celebrated at a concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Saturday. This year's fellows included (from left to right) saxophonist Marshall ...

A celebration to honor this year's NEA Jazz Masters award recipients, including Marshall Allen, Chucho Valdés, Marilyn Crispell and Gary Giddins.... The NEA Jazz Masters fellowship began in 1982, ...

Something happened to jazz pianist Marilyn Crispell in Scandinavia in the early '90s. To read the 60-year-old musician tell the tale now, her solo piano recital at a Stockholm Festival led to an ...