He encouraged her to play ragtime music; she was so exceptional at it that after a 1948 concert at the London Casino, her star was on the rise, thanks as much to her warmth and style as to her ...

Pianist Winifred Atwell - the first black woman with a UK Number One - leads the pack of music legends featured in a new Spotify Windrush Top 20 playlist. Atwell’s 1954 hit Let’s Have Another ...

Winifred Atwell was the classically-trained pianist from Trinidad who became the first black artist to go to number one in the UK. Show more Winifred Atwell was a classically-trained pianist from ...

The piano features across all western music traditions, from classical music, through jazz and into the popular music we listen to today. If the internet is to be believed, as many as 40 million ...