Jimmy Rowles – Billie Holiday’s favorite pianist and the piano man on “The Pink Panther” – has finally returned home. No, he is not living in Spokane, although this is where he was born and grew up.

Last week I happened to be listening to a Jimmy Rowles album he recorded with his daughter Stacy in 1988. One of the most interesting tracks on the CD is the moody waltz-time ballad Looking Back, a ...

Stacy Rowles once wrote a note to her father, pianist and composer Jimmy Rowles, stating: "Dear Dad, if you buy me a flugelhorn, I'll play the [expletive] out of it." Indeed she did, and she picked up ...

Zoot Sims Meets Jimmy Rowles (Original Jazz Classics). Tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims puts in an excellent performance on this reissue of a 1977 Pablo recording. But the surprise is Jimmy Rowles on piano ...

Stacy Rowles once wrote a note to her father, pianist and composer Jimmy Rowles, stating: "Dear Dad, if you buy me a flugelhorn, I'll play the [expletive] out of it." Indeed she did, and she picked up ...

Stacy Rowles, a jazz trumpet and fluegelhorn player and vocalist who was the daughter of pianist and composer Jimmy Rowles, has died. She was 54. Ms. Rowles died Oct. 27 at her home in Burbank, Calif.

Stacy Rowles, a jazz trumpet and fluegelhorn player and vocalist who was the daughter of pianist and composer Jimmy Rowles, has died. She was 54. Rowles died Tuesday at her home in Burbank of ...

Stacy Rowles, a jazz trumpet and fluegelhorn player and vocalist who was the daughter of pianist and composer Jimmy Rowles, has died. She was 54. Rowles died Tuesday at her home in Burbank of ...