Jazz Articles about Quentin Walston

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Quentin Walston: Teaching Jazz, Retro Future, and Reviving 1920s Stride

by Mike Jones
October 5, 2026

This week Quentin Walston, pianist, author, and jazz educator, joins Mike Jones for a conversation about a simple idea: people enjoy the music more when they understand what is going on inside it. He would know. He broke down Take Five into a short video and four and a half million people watched. They trace Quentin's path from a bluegrass corner of Virginia to a self-taught start on ragtime and boogie-woogie, the moment in high school when the ...