On a Tuesday night in July, Jonathan Suazo’s nine-piece band crammed into a practice studio at The Record Co. in Boston. Suazo kicked off a bright melody on his alto sax. He bounced on his toes as he ...

Gerry Mulligan was one of the most sought-after baritone saxophonists of the cool jazz movement Much of "Jeru's Journey: The Life & Music of Gerry Mulligan" is from tapes the saxophonist recorded ...

Lee Konitz, an alto saxophonist who was an exemplar of jazz’s so-called “cool school,” died Wednesday in Manhattan of coronavirus complications, according to his niece, Linda Konitz. Unlike the ...

A Redding doctor wants people to seek therapy — smooth jazz therapy — when his band plays its annual concert later this month at Old City Hall in Redding. Family doctor David Short is the front man ...

It's considered by many to be music's sexiest instrument. Its versatile sound, so like a great singer's voice — sweetly seductive one moment, growling and blustery the next — has become virtually ...

Sultry saxophonist Marion Meadows is cool, and we're not just talking about his Bob Marley-esque dreadlocks or seriously sexy physique that he struts during his live shows. He's the poster child for ...

In The Devil's Horn, Segell traces the 160-year history of the saxophone a horn that created a sound never before heard in nature, and that from the moment it debuted has aroused both positive and ...

If your idea of jazz is a couple of old guys playing great riffs on horns or well-worn guitars, Grace Kelly is about to blow your mind. The 27-year-old Massachusetts native who picked up a saxophone ...

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 ...