Marc Copland is a modern jazz pianist, composer, and recording artist whose nickname "the Piano Whisperer" was earned by his rich harmonic technique and crystalline sound. Despite first building a reputation as a saxophonist, Copland (then going by his birth name, Marc Cohen) was dissatisfied with what he perceived to be its harmonic limitations, and he spent a decade studying piano and developing his own technique on the instrument. At the age of 40 in 1988, he cut his first date as a leader with My Foolish Heart (credited to the Marc Cohen Quartet). Among the highlights of d...