Indiana University saxophone professor Tom Walsh and his quintet will be continuing the Jazz at Helen’s season this November.

Almost no other instrument seems so synonymous with jazz as the sax. Listen to some classic alto playing from Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt and more greats.

There is so much to celebrate at the Taos Jazz Festival, which continues with top-caliber jazz performances through the weekend. The whole festival itself — now in its 11th season ...

Saxophone virtuoso Roderick "Rev" Paulin and his players — often billed as Rev & the Congregation — will bring their spirit ...

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, ...

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 ...

On Wednesday night, Carolina Public Humanities held “Music of Hope and Healing with Rahsaan Barber” as a part of the Flyleaf Bookstore’s Fall Music Series. In light of the recent election cycle, ...

Jimmy Heath, a prolific saxophonist, composer and bandleader who played alongside some of the biggest names of jazz, including Miles Davis and John Coltrane, has died. Heath died Sunday morning in ...

Lee Konitz was the last surviving musician to have played on Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool compilation album Lee Konitz, a celebrated jazz saxophonist, died on Wednesday due to complications from the ...

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