David Sanborn, a musical chameleon whose wailing alto saxophone helped shape the sound of jazz fusion in the 1970s and ’80s, as he sold millions of albums while adding his touch to the performances of ...

Longtime and new jazz performers in the Greenville area say the Greenville Jazz Fest is good for expanding the audience for ...

Sonny Rollins, who has died aged 95, was, as the title of his most celebrated album declared, a Saxophone Colossus.

There comes a time in every great artist’s life when all the lessons they’ve learned go out the window and everything starts flowing on raw emotion. For Wayne Shorter, one such moment occurred during ...

Gary Meek is an American jazz and fusion saxophone and keyboard artist. As a featured artist or session musician he has contributed to more than 200 albums Gary Meek was born in 1961 in Encino, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Michelle Bracken/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST) Sonny Rollins, the “saxophone colossus” who was widely considered America’s greatest ...

GRAND RAPIDS — Veteran saxophonist Rolly Smith acknowledges that when he first started playing in fellow saxman Joe Uzarski’s “avant-fusion” band Space Bar, he found the music really “weird.” ...

Night Train kicks off the June Jazz Accordion Feature for Accordion Month with music from the Hot Club of Detroit, Gil ...

It starts with the groan-inducing joke of a name — Bustin’ Jieber. (Now on tour with Ciley Myrus? OK, too much.) It could have ended there, too, only the band behind the silly monicker is damn good.

John Gunther teaches our jazz saxophone majors, including BM, MM and DMA students. At all levels, Gunther works with his students to develop and maintain a solid foundation in the physical aspects of ...

One of the last stars of the bebop generation, Rollins was a genius of melodic invention and improvisation, working with Davis, Monk, Coltrane and others ...