“There are more people playing jazz music at a higher level than ever before in the history of jazz.” That’s Ian Buss’s answer when I ask him about choosing a career playing straight-ahead jazz music ...

The Encore Saxophone Quartet brought some great music to the great outdoors on Sunday. The quartet performed on a warm summer evening as part of the Garden Concert series at St. Luke’s Presbyterian ...

When jazz fans talk about the Texas Tenor saxophone sound, they're talking about a sound which is very robust, sometimes raw, and which mixes the musical vocabularies of swing, bebop, blues and R&B.

Bandleader Woody Herman's Second Herd in the late 1940s featured a stunning saxophone section known as the Four Brothers. It featured tenormen Stan Getz, Zoot Sims and Herbie Steward, plus baritone ...

There is push and pull. There is give and take. There are crests and there are troughs. Saxophone player Miguel Zenon, when performing his combination of jazz and Latin American folkloric music, seems ...

Few sounds from an alto saxophone are more distinctive than the music of David Sanborn. Once heard, it's never mistaken for anyone else's music. Sanborn's playing is lyrical and sweet but meaty enough ...

The resulting lump of plastic is said to deliver a surprisingly soulful sound after stretching the capabilities of present day technology to the max. Brainchild of sax player Olaf Diegel it is printed ...

The British musician is an artist in residence at Winter Jazzfest in New York this week, playing an instrument group that he first picked up in 2019. By Hugh Morris Reporting from London As Shabaka ...