The saxophone (the tenor and alto varieties) only began to play an important role in the big-band swing era, when Johnny Hodges and Coleman Hawkins emerged as one of the best jazz saxophonists of ...

As part of the International Jazz Seminar taking place in Malaga the Casa de Cultura in Benalmadena is hosting The Blue ...

Roland Kirk’s 1967 album 'Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith' was his only recording for Verve Records.

Luminaries from the Harlem Renaissance and beyond are celebrated and memorialized in 25 commemorative plaques that now bear ...

Initially formed in 2017 when the Oxford American magazine commissioned two Little Rock musicians — pianist Christopher ...

After a quiet 2024, the Saxophones are back with the new song “Burning With Desire.” The duo — made up of married couple Alexi Erenkov and Alison Alderdice — is also teasing “much more ...

Trumpeter Brown's pointed and lyrical blowing combined with Roach's restless drums and the deliberate sound of Harold Land's tenor saxophone poured the foundation for a new daring and elegant form of ...

The Many Dimensions of Dexter Gordon article by Arthur R George, published on February 6, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more ...

Discover an exposé of great recent new and reissued jazz music releases that will appease even the most discerning jazz music ...

Pop-rock band Bleachers and its front man, Jack Antonoff, are very famously from the Garden State, but Dallas-born saxophonist Evan Smith provides the group with some Texas soul.

FireAid in Los Angeles inspired a community devastated by wildfires. We take you inside the benefit shows with Lady Gaga, Olivia Rodrigo and more.

Formed in Brighton in 1977 The Piranhas have always been a light-hearted affair who were fronted by the one in a ...