One of many hard-bop giants to emerge from Detroit, Tommy Flanagan possessed a brilliant, sensitive touch which made him a first-call pianist for more than 50 years. Though his legacy remains ...

Pianist Tommy Flanagan opened his six-night gig at the Jazz Bakery Tuesday night with a tastefully low-key set that bordered on the sedate yet proved that you don't have to be flamboyant to make an ...

Tommy Flanagan, a jazz pianist of considerable elegance and grace thought by many critics to be among the finest in the business, has died. He was 71. Flanagan was perhaps best known as an accompanist ...

Tommy Flanagan, a jazz pianist of considerable elegance and grace thought by many critics to be among the finest in the business, has died. He was 71. He died Friday night at Mount Sinai Medical ...

Comparisons have always helped me appreciate jazz. An artist plays a tune fast; another does it as a ballad. A trumpeter finishes his solo, and a saxophonist takes that closing phrase and morphs it in ...

From the opening tag of the first tune on this 1955 recording, one relaxes on the axis of the steel vibes of Milt Jackson, joined by his Modern Jazz Quartet mates Percy Heath and Connie Kay, along ...

Mainstream jazz piano is a weird beast. Most non-jazz listeners can't tell it apart from cocktail lounge piano. Great practitioners of the art make it seem deceptively easy, but I can attest that it's ...

One of many hard-bop giants to emerge from Detroit, the pianist brought his sensitive touch to some of jazz's most memorable records (and much of... Tommy Flanagan: Poet Of Piano One of many hard-bop ...

Rarely has such unanimously unstinting praise been bestowed on a less self-congratulatory recipient. As genial and matter-of-fact off the stand as he is fiercely individual at the keys, Tommy Flanagan ...

Tommy Flanagan, a jazz pianist of considerable elegance and grace thought by many critics to be among the finest in the business, has died. He was 71. He died Friday night at Mt. Sinai Medical Center ...

Tommy Flanagan's resume reads like a book. Alongside fellow pianist Hank Jones, Flanagan was perhaps one of the music's greatest accompanists. He played with everyone who was anyone in jazz. Get this: ...

Jazz pianist Tommy Flanagan, known for his elegance and grace, died Friday Nov. 16 at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City from complications of an aneurysm he suffered more than 10 years before.