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 ...

Renowned saxophonist Kirk Whalum and Berks County’s own Reading Choral Society, directed by Graham Bier, will collaborate during the popular “Gospel According to Jazz!” concert, back this year for ...

Music is a vital element to the Christian faith. King David, famous for his soul-stirring Psalms in the Bible, wrote of singing new songs to the Lord using popular instruments during his lifetime, ...

Pews were filled with people clapping their hands and bobbing their heads to the rhythmic melodies of the Joey Harrison Group and Bryant Pugh Band during Saturday night’s “Gospel Meets Jazz” concert ...

Spyro Gyra, who opened the the first annual (and Observer-sponsored) HSBC Jazz Festival at the Nokia Theater last night, arrived Spyro Gyra, who opened the the first annual (and Observer-sponsored) ...

When Annie Booth was learning to play the piano as a kid living in Westminster, she often found herself frustrated with instructors who told her there was only one way to play each song. “I just hated ...

*It is rare that one is ever afforded the luxury of speaking frankly to a master of his or her craft without consequence born of inflated egos and pride. That goes especially so for a journalist. Sure ...

The first time saxophonist Dave Koz played Wolf Trap, he opened for Ray Charles, in a major moment of his early career. Now, a seasoned artist with 12 albums and 20 years of successes behind him, he ...

After several years of playing alongside music legends like Femi Kuti, Orits Williki and Onyeka Onwenu, US-based gospel musician and saxophonist, Abiodun Oluwamayowa Awokoya, simply known as Abbey Che ...

'Trane was interested in bringing in more like-minded players to suit his evolving musical vision. Avant garde tenor sax heavyweights Archie Shepp and Pharaoh Sanders, drummer Rashied Ali, and pianist ...

Damien Sneed doesn't believe in coincidences. Each event in his life set a purpose and path for what would follow. "For me, God has been everything in my music and everything to me," he tells Jazz ...