Dimming one’s light in the face of haters is not something Lidia Rodriguez knows how to do. Whenever she gets comments from guys about her size or gender, the baritone player is quick to clap back ...

Jack Nimitz, a jazz baritone saxophonist who played in the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton big bands and in the group “Supersax,” died Wednesday of complications from emphysema at his home in Studio City ...

Call it stereotyping, but the truth is occasionally we’ll see a pairing of musician and instrument we don’t expect. We’d be surprised, for example, to find a burly, hulking guy playing a piccolo. We’d ...

For the irrepressibly creative Chicago saxophonist Juli Wood, the only thing better than one big, rumbling baritone saxophone is, well, two of them. Which is why she has created her Big Bari Band, ...

In 1976, when the World Saxophone Quartet played its first concert, it introduced a new sound to jazz. No bass. No drums. No piano. Just four saxophones: the late Julius Hemphill playing alto, with ...

Young Lion of the Baritone Sax, B.J. Jansen, blows back into Cincinnati to showcase for the 2006 Mid Point Music Fest. B.J. Jansen, Philadelphia jazz baritone saxophone artist (and Cincinnati native ...

The history of jazz is filled with the self-made intellectual, men and women with an innate drive to learn as much as they could about the world in which they lived. Because jazz has gutbucket marrow ...

Before I lugged my ass to the Chicago Reader in 1993, I spent quite a few years at Jazz Record Mart, and the other day one of my former JRM coworkers, Steve Dawson of Dolly Varden, posted on Facebook ...

The burning heat and hard-driving swing of a jazz organ trio will fill Ann Arbor’s Blue Llama Jazz Club on Friday when baritone saxophonist Alex Harding’s Organ Nation plays an evening of standards ...

Jack Nimitz played clarinet and alto saxophone before discovering the baritone sax and falling in love with the instrument's voice. “It sounded so warm and nice and dark and rich," he said. Nimitz ...