For his concerts, he prepares the piano with various materials such as eraser bits and carved wooden twigs; the result is a complex, spacious sound that hardly seems to be emanating from a single instrument.

France throws it down to New York in "Crossing the Line," a cultural festival the New York Times calls one of the world’s “most exciting and thought provoking”

Internationally acclaimed jazz pianist Oscar Peterson has died. He was 82.

Music is said to be the universal language, and jazz, in particular, travels well from one culture to the next. A recent conference in Los Angeles looked at the ties forged by jazz between France and the United States. Mike O'Sullivan spoke with noted French pianist Rene Urtreger about the influence of jazz in his country.

Pioneering Austrian jazz pianist Joe Zawinul - founder of the jazz-rock group Weather Report - has died. Hospital officials say Zawinul died Tuesday in Vienna at age 75. Austrian media reports say he had been suffering from cancer.

Only his health prevented Oscar Peterson from traveling from his home near Toronto to attend the tribute concert featuring Wynton Marsalis and other jazz stars at Carnegie Hall - where the legendary jazz pianist started his international career nearly 60 years ago.