All hail the guitar solo — one of the most indestructibly great art forms in all of modern music. There’s nothing quite like ...

Ray Barretto’s Acid returns on AAA vinyl May 22. Craft Latino brings the boogaloo heat again. Think you are fast enough to grab one? Craft Latino isn’t slowing down and if anything, it’s getting more ...

Almost no other instrument seems so synonymous with jazz as the sax. Listen to some classic alto playing from Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt and more greats. Credit...Illustration by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saxophone player Sarah Hanahan will perform with her quartet at SUNY Schenectady on Oct. 3 as part of the A Place For Jazz fall ...

Sarah Hanahan was named the top rising alto sax star in Downbeat magazine's 2025 critics' poll. Saxophonist Sarah Hanahan will perform at SUNY Schenectady on Friday, Oct. 3. Saxophonist Sarah Hanahan, ...

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Gerry Mulligan wasn’t just a baritone sax icon—he was a revolutionary voice in jazz. From his pioneering pianoless quartets to his arranging work on Birth of the Cool, Mulligan proved that space, ...

City Center Bishop Ranch in San Ramon is bringing smooth jazz back to the Bay Area with a free concert series running throughout July. Held in the center’s outdoor plaza, the City Center Smooth Jazz ...

Normally, Saxsquatch — that’s the saxophone-playing sasquatch, obviously — can be found in his native habitat, the woods and mountains around Chapel Hill, North Carolina. But he’s just finished a ...

It may be coincidence, or just a reflection of my own state of mind, that this dreadful year’s list of favorite jazz albums leans toward the meditative, the balladic, the Romantic, sometimes the Zen, ...

Sounds pretty unanimous; looks like Roger Goodell and the NFL need to start making some calls. The Lions are hosting the Bears in an NFL North matchup of two rivals in completely different places.

Nov 11 (Reuters) - U.S. saxophonist Lou Donaldson, one of jazz music's last remaining links to the era of bebop in the 1950s who went on to develop a soul and Latin-inspired sound in the following ...