Pharoah Sanders’ 1977 release Izipho Zam (My Gifts) on the Strata-East label is a fascinating listen. Widely regarded as a landmark in the evolution of free jazz, it continues to grow on me—and that, ...

The Rev. Bill Carter remembers the story his mother told him about attending a Louis Armstrong concert in Venango County as a ...

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 ...

It’s fall and in Austin that of course means it’s time for Jazz at St. James' Episcopal Church. By the time the annual music ...

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 ...

Invented in the early 1840s, the saxophone was a relative latecomer to music—and to jazz. But starting in the mid-1920s, with the rise of the big bands, the instrument slowly but steadily evolved from ...

The award-winning Murray State University Jazz Ensembles will present their fall campus concerts on Tuesday, Nov. 4 in ...

Jack DeJohnette, who has died aged 83, was one of the greatest drummers in modern jazz, working with the likes of Sonny ...