British-born McPartland (Margaret Marian Turner, 1918-2013) was a trailblazer in the music business. In 1944, while performing for Allied forces in Europe during World War II, she met and married ...

She landed in Normandy soon after the first troops, and a few months later in Belgium met Dixieland Cornettist Jimmy McPartland, a private in the 2nd Division.

“One Step to Chicago,” which is, so far, one of the best jazz albums of 2022, was actually recorded in 1992 and has roots in events a full 70 years before that. A hundred years ago, a loose ...

Jimmy McPartland, a brilliant cornetist and a critical link to the birth of Chicago jazz in the Roaring ’20s, died early on Wednesday, two days short of his 84th birthday.

Jimmy McPartland, a brilliant cornetist and a critical link to the birth of Chicago jazz in the Roaring ’20s, died early on Wednesday, two days short of his 84th birthday. Mr. McPartland, who… ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Marian McPartland, a British musician who hosted a jazz program on National Public Radio for more than four decades, has died at age 95, NPR said on its website.

She ended up marrying one of them, an American cornetist named Jimmy McPartland, in Germany in February 1945.

They married in 1945 and moved to Chicago, Jimmy McPartland bucking stereotypes by encouraging his bride to make her way in jazz.

Marian McPartland was a jazz pianist, writer, educator, and radio host whose improvisatory talents and musical empathy made her one of the most engaging and enlightening jazz artists of her time.

This year marks the centennial of Marian McPartland (1918 – 2013). In honor of the occasion, Piano Jazz revisits a session with Marian and her husband, Jimmy McPartland. In addition to playing ...