Melissa Aldana seems, at first blush, to be making great strides as a composer. The tenor saxophonist’s two most recent albums, 2022’s “12 Stars” and last year’s “Echoes of the Inner Prophet,” are ...

What happens when all your European and North American concerts and tours fall through because of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic? For alto saxophone great Charles McPherson, there have been ...

It’s easy to feel disconnected from reality amidst the serene ambiance of The Blue Note, the storied jazz club perched just off 6th Avenue in New York City’s West Village. It’s either ironic or ...

Anthony Ortega only performs once a week. But when the 88-year-old saxophone great takes the stage each Sunday evening at Mr. Peabody’s in Encinitas, he often plays for up to three hours at a time ...

While hauling his luggage through airport terminals, Boney James occasionally hears a calming jazz saxophone coming from the sound system. His jazz saxophone. James, a veteran of modern smooth jazz, ...

East Bay saxophonist Howard Wiley is bringing sexy back. One of the Bay Area’s premier tenor players (and an accomplished drummer), he has little time for jazz geared more to impress fellow musicians ...

I moved to New York on a whim. I did it very fast and I knew I had to start from zero. This article was originally published at All About Jazz in December 2001. Belgian alto saxophonist Stephane ...

Originally consisting of saxophonists David Murray, Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake and Hamiet Bluiett, the World Saxophone Quartet is one of the finest and most unusual small combos in jazz today. The ...

To hear the broadcast version of this story, use the audio player above. For more than 25 years, Tony Malaby has been one of the most riveting saxophonists in jazz — a dauntless explorer who's also at ...