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 ...

Their program includes music by Claude Debussy, Samuel Barber, Branford’s brother Wynton Marsalis, Ennio Morricone and contemporary British composer Sally Beamish and American composer Michael ...

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 ...

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 ...

Israel-born clarinetist and saxophonist Anat Cohen joins Marian McPartland, along with bassist Gary Mazzaroppi and drummer Glenn Davis, for a quartet edition of Piano Jazz. Born and Raised in Tel Aviv ...

David Leonhardt was one of millions of kids who dreamed of playing in a rock band and was one of only a handful who actually pulled it off. He picked up the string bass, learned the piano and turned ...

Beach Fossils' sound evolved quite a bit over the course of the 2010s, from a dreamy ragtag lo-fi to a more mature, immaculately sighing form of guitar-pop. None of that prepared us for the band's ...

The Jazz @ the Olin Arts Center Series at Bates opens with pianist Vijay Iyer and saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa, a duo known as Raw Materials, in performance at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, in the ...

The iconography of jazz usually features smoky images of coolly wasted-looking individuals in natty hats blowing saxophones. But if saxes and trumpets have seemed like the quintessential jazz ...

Delaware Water Gap, a small town in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, is home to its share of talented jazz musicians. Phil Woods lives in the area, Keith Jarrett is not too far away and the Deer ...