Saxophonists in jazz are about as common as guitarists in rock. Some, on the other hand, possess a very different quality. They are accomplished jazz flautists as well. Despite Will Ferrell's efforts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sonny Rollins, the jazz legend dubbed the Saxophone Colossus who redefined the language of the genre with his inimitable ...

One of the last stars of the bebop generation, Rollins was a genius of melodic invention and improvisation, working with Davis, Monk, Coltrane and others ...

David Sanborn, a musical chameleon whose wailing alto saxophone helped shape the sound of jazz fusion in the 1970s and ’80s, as he sold millions of albums while adding his touch to the performances of ...

David Sanborn, the six time Grammy-winning alto saxophonist who played at Woodstock, composed music for the Lethal Weapon movies, played in the SNL and Late Night with David Letterman bands and worked ...

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 ...

The Rova Saxophone Quartet was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in October 1977 by Jon Raskin, Larry Ochs, Andrew Voigt and Bruce Ackley. The ensemble performed its first concert at the 3rd ...

For the first song of his debut Spoleto show, Norwegian jazz multi-instrumentalist Håkon Kornstad seemed to have laid all his cards on the table. He started by getting every sound possible out of a ...

Longtime and new jazz performers in the Greenville area say the Greenville Jazz Fest is good for expanding the audience for ...

Legendary Jazz musician Sonny Rollins, who was known as the "saxophone colossus", has died aged 95. He died at his home in Woodstock, New York, on Monday afternoon according to a statement from his ...