For over twenty years, host and artistic director Marian McPartland has invited some of the very best jazz talent into the studio for conversation and improvisation.
Piano Jazz fans say the show's intimate style is "like listening in on a conversation in someone's living room."
And no one but McPartland, with her engaging personality and improvisational savvy, could host such a variety of performers in her radio "living room."
Marian McPartland received the 2000 Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Award for her lifetime contribution to jazz.
Her devotion to Piano Jazz sets this Peabody Award-winning program apart.
The Washington Post calls Piano Jazz "an oasis of intelligence and grace and probably the best hour of jazz on the airwaves."
