Piano and saxophone duets are jazz distilled to its bare essentials: one linear melodic voice interacting with a chordal and rhythmic partner, also capable of leading the line. What these two European ...

Since the 1840s, when the saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax, the wind instrument named after him has become a key component of jazz groups ranging from big bands to small combos. It was also a ...

Unlike the structured precision of a piano-driven quartet, saxophone-guitar albums thrive on spontaneity. Imagine a smoky jazz club where the deep, soulful wail of a saxophone weaves effortlessly with ...

Recorded during 1982 and 1983 but unheard until now, Morgenmusiken (“Morning Music”) reveals Green Cosmos, a quartet from Marsberg, Germany—a town scarcely known for jazz—at a point of remarkable ...

A Redding doctor wants people to seek therapy — smooth jazz therapy — when his band plays its annual concert later this month at Old City Hall in Redding. Family doctor David Short is the front man ...

Jazz musicians are the innovative artists who create and perform jazz, a uniquely music style born in New Orleans in the early 1900s. These musicians blend improvisation, rhythm, and personal ...