FILE - Benny Golson speaks at the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Awards Ceremony and Concert held in New York, Jan. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file) NEW YORK (AP) — Jazz great ...

He performed with John Coltrane in the 1960s before becoming a key figure in the spiritual jazz scene. By Mitchell Peters, Billboard Pharoah Sanders, the legendary tenor saxophonist who performed ...

David Sanborn, beloved jazz saxophonist who is credited on songs for Stevie Wonder, David Bowie and many more, died Sunday. He was 78. A message posted to the musician’s social media page confirmed ...

Tonight on the Night Train, we mark birthdays of Latin Jazz giant Eddie Palmieri, pianist and composer Barry Harris, and hard ...

What is jazz? Well, if you ask a young saxophonist and composer who goes by the name Seventh Sun, he’d say it’s everything. His newly released debut recording honors the genre’s traditions and ...

The bassist’s reissued ‘Mingus at Monterey’ and the drummer’s previously unreleased ‘Strasbourg 82’ highlight both musicians ...

In “Farm Fresh Jazz (notes from a saxophonist)” Penelope Keep ’28 offers readers a bi-weekly backstage pass to the Stanford jazz scene. Each edition gives readers her take on the latest jazz events ...

Shorter died at a Los Angeles hospital, his publicist, Alisse Kingsley, told The New York Times. No cause of death was given. Wayne Shorter, my best friend, left us with courage in his heart, love and ...

This article first appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. When Anthony Ware was a fourth grader at the Hillcrest Elementary School in Somerset, NJ, he had the opportunity to select a musical instrument to ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pharoah Sanders, the influential tenor saxophonist revered in the jazz world for the spirituality of his work, has died, his record label announced. He was 81. Sanders, who launched ...