Invented in the early 1840s, the saxophone was a relative latecomer to music—and to jazz. But starting in the mid-1920s, with the rise of the big bands, the instrument slowly but steadily evolved from ...
She will be accompanied by drummer Darrell Green’s intuitive hard bop swing, trumpeter Wallace Roney Jr., pianist Jordan ...
The jazz world is mourning the loss of acclaimed saxophonist and clarinetist Ken Peplowksi, who died this week at the age of 66. Below are the thoughts of WBGO's former Director of Editorial Content, ...
Originally consisting of saxophonists David Murray, Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake and Hamiet Bluiett, the World Saxophone Quartet is one of the finest and most unusual small combos in jazz today. The ...
Top Prizes Include a Conn-Selmer Saxophone Plus Thousands of Dollars in Grants I won a Conn-Selmer baritone saxophone ...
What happens when all your European and North American concerts and tours fall through because of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic? For alto saxophone great Charles McPherson, there have been ...
Also a saxophone standout, he served as stylistic bridge between the Benny Goodman swing era and the genre-blurring present.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, ...
The couple danced beneath the sax man’s front window. At first, Joe Lawton, 85, didn’t know the couple was there. He was merely practicing in his living room, confined to his home by the lockdown ...
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