A cornetist and jazz scholar, Sudhalter remembers overlooked cornetist Bix Beiderbecke with Marian McPartland. Beiderbecke had a short career in the 1920s, but he influenced a wide spectrum of artists, from Hoagy Carmichael to Miles Davis. McPartland plays Beiderbecke's most famous piano composition, "In a Mist," before getting together with Sudhalter on "Davenport Blues."

Harmon is an enthralling jazz pianist, a tireless educator and a widely commissioned composer. In both his playing and his compositions, he draws on his love of the outdoors and Native American traditions, which is plainly evident when he performs his own composition, "Taos Pueblo."

The late entertainer's career spanned every facet of show business: theater, film, cabaret, TV and, of course, music. Piano Jazz remembers her in this 1993 interview and duet with Marian McPartland.

Renee Fleming, Mimi Fox, Blossom Dearie and Suzanna McCorkle join Piano Jazz host Marian McPartland to celebrate the season with new holiday recordings. McPartland also reprises her improvised score to the classic O. Henry story, The Gift of the Magi.

The Piano Jazz host pays tribute to the environmentalist with a composition for strings and piano.

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McPartland celebrated her birthday with some of jazz's biggest names in a night of improvisation.

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