No surprise that the clear winner in the first category is what I’ll call “aperitif wine”. The first glass of the evening is ...

He began his study of music with the clarinet at age 13, then switched to the alto saxophone at 15, and finally to the tenor ... There was Helen Humes in 1950, Gladys Bentley in 1952, Kitty White in ...

In junior high school, I started playing the alto saxophone. I discovered Charlie ... of all colors, black, white, green, yellow, whatever—were making good money. They were working hard, but ...

Moore This month, we look at the legacy of Blue Note Records, perhaps the best-known label in jazz, with its instantly recognizable blue-and-white vinyl ... not notes or a saxophone.

Don’s early professional career included tours as lead alto with the Tommy Dorsey Band directed by Buddy ... They recorded a CD, Another Reply, with drummers Chris Brown and Jim White, which charted ...

I loved the beat, the optimism and all that wild stage stuff, like Al Rexclimbing on his white bass and Rudy ... When I first heard the sound of his alto saxophone, I found it angular and weird ...

Featuring Eric Dolphy on alto sax and Julian Priester on trombone ... fellow musicians Don Ellis and Lalo Schifrin and several white jazz writers in a no-holds-barred DownBeat Magazine round ...

They may have left it a while before recording their first CD, but the Equinox Jazz Quartet are having a ball playing ...

Rileigh Wren shook off the nerves Sunday when she decided to dance to the music of the Clinton Symphony Orchestra's opening ...

“He prided himself on his arrangements but he really loved, just loved playing, the saddest part of the last six years of his life was that he wasn’t able to play sax, which was his first love ...