Sonny Rollins, the jazz legend dubbed the Saxophone Colossus who redefined the language of the genre with his inimitable improvisational skills, died on Monday at his home in Woodstock, NY. He was 95.
The Rova Saxophone Quartet was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in October 1977 by Jon Raskin, Larry Ochs, Andrew Voigt and Bruce Ackley. The ensemble performed its first concert at the 3rd ...
A versatile and thoughtful saxophonist and composer, Tim Ries has collaborated with such jazz artists as Phil Woods, Tom Harrell, Al Foster, John Patitucci, Dave Liebman, Danilo Perez, Maynard ...
The popular annual outdoor free festival features national and local talent July 17-19 in Bushnell Park in Hartford.
Billy Harper as he appears on the cover of the 1990 album Destiny Is Yours Credit: Steve Krakow for Chicago Reader Saxophonist Billy Harper has a quote from jazz radio broadcaster Miles Willis ...
James Carter, a longtime saxophone innovator and collaborator with Wynton Marsalis, will be at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston on September 21. He talked with GBH Music’s Jazz on 89.7 hosts Al Davis and ...
Born in Lochgelly, Scotland in 1929, Temperley is America's oldest baritone sax artist, and one of the true anchors of the global jazz scene. Courtesy of Jazz at Lincoln Center Slinking in through the ...
Sonny Rollins, the legendary jazz saxophonist who collaborated with everyone from Coleman Hawkins to the Rolling Stones, has died.
Jazz, blues, classical, funk, pop, soul, bossa nova, gospel, rock, Afrobeat, disco and country. These are just some of the styles of music that tenor saxophone great Houston Person has performed in ...
Grammy-winning saxophonist Joe Lovano is named the 2026 Detroit Jazz Festival Artist-in-Residence, bringing acclaimed musicians along for the ride.
JAMES CITY — On any given warm winter afternoon along Olde Towne Road in James City County, you’re likely to see and hear Kenneth Piggott playing his saxophone. Piggott practices “on that corner” at ...
Sonny Rollins, the “saxophone colossus” who was widely considered America’s greatest living jazz musician and whose musical eloquence and inventiveness kept him at the creative forefront of jazz for ...