As a high school student in Massachusetts, Sarah Hanahan didn't like her academic classes. In fact, she admits, "I just hated school. I always knew, like, 'I can't do this. This just isn't me.'" "It's ...

The tall, debonair saxophonist known as the “Sophisticated Giant” had a seemingly effortless power in his playing. Hear 10 ...

More than 70 years ago, what's often called the greatest jazz concert of all time took place in Toronto. Charlie "Bird" Parker soared with four legendary colleagues while playing a plastic saxophone.

photo - A celebrated saxophonist Joie Taylor has backed jazz stars like Delfayo Marsalis, Javon Jackson and Larry Coryell at Maui Jazz & Blues Festival shows. Courtesy photo Performing at the Maui ...

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 ...

Renowned jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman performs songs from his new album, where are we. Renowned jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman performs songs from his new album, where are we, as he explores the ...

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 ...

Picture this: A talented EDM and jazz-influenced saxophonist playing a sold-out concert. Then add a laser light show. Oh, and the musician on stage is a 7-foot-tall sasquatch. That's the kind of ...

Kahlil Childs remembers the moment he fell in love with jazz. Although he was surrounded by the sounds of jazz, soul, blues, funk, reggae, Afro-Latin music, and old school hip-hop from the ’80s and ...

The tenor saxophonist made his debut in 1959 and would go on to be a foundational member of two of the most seminal jazz groups: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and the Miles Davis Quintet. By The ...

On this soupy, mid-October day, Rosehill Cemetery is eerily quiet, even for a graveyard. But inside May Chapel — the cozy, neo-Gothic chapel at its heart — Mars Williams is loud. One of Chicago’s most ...

Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, has died. He was 89.