A decade ago, Monty Alexander started incorporating elements of his Jamaican youth -- reggae and ska -- into his all-swinging repertoire and style and started to distinguish himself among pianists ...

Risk and reward is honored in the selection of this premium sound night club gig from nearly forty years ago. Just how such a recording is going to play in a current climate is tricky business. Is it ...

Indulge me. Turning points are memorable, so I’d like to share a brief story from my life.  I had, as a teenager, played in a ...

Jamaican pianist Monty Alexander and guitarist Ernest Ranglin are old friends, countrymen and music legends. As young sidemen in Kingston in the early 1960s -- Alexander started out at 15 -- the two ...

Monty Alexander has long been a one-man Kingston Trio. This is a somewhat wiseguy, punny way of saying that the pianist, who was born in 1944 at Kingston, Jamaica, has always had three major strings ...

Encompassing decades of Caribbean music styles, jazz and classic tunes from the Great American Songbook, Jamaican American pianist Monty Alexander’s “A Living History: Jamaica to Jazz” concert event ...

The Monty Alexander 80th Birthday Celebration Concert features the legendary pianist performing music from his latest release, D-Day. Recognized as one of the greatest living jazz pianists, Alexander ...

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Correspondent Tony Cox speaks with multi-talented jazz pianist Monty Alexander about his new CD, Impressions in Blue, and his illustrious music career. Alexander has worked with many of the greatest ...