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 ...

In addition to playing jazz piano, Heather Bennett is the organist and music director at a New Jersey church. Ellie Lee describes herself as a “bold, fiery artist” who “composes in a variety of styles ...

More than 70 years ago, what's often called the greatest jazz concert of all time took place in Toronto. Charlie "Bird" Parker soared with four legendary colleagues while playing a plastic saxophone.

When your rehearsal space is the bank of the Hudson, the audience is a bit unconventional. By Harvey Dickson It was Year 2 of the pandemic, in the spring, that I hit on the idea of having my high ...

The Farragut High School Marching Admirals have a new feather in their band hats with the addition of Rodney Brown as assistant band director. Brown comes to Farragut after a four-year stint as band ...

There comes a time in every great artist’s life when all the lessons they’ve learned go out the window and everything starts flowing on raw emotion. For Wayne Shorter, one such moment occurred during ...

Picture this: A talented EDM and jazz-influenced saxophonist playing a sold-out concert. Then add a laser light show. Oh, and the musician on stage is a 7-foot-tall sasquatch. That's the kind of ...

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 ...

Warning: Due to its extreme range and the required very firm embouchure only professional players can play the Soprillo. It may take several months of practise to reach the highest notes. The ...

Notes about playing jazz; a fun guide to this inventive music. Yup, notes are the problem. How many to play, which ones, and at what time. Guitarists are known by their desire to play one or two extra ...

IU conductor and professor Natalie Boeyink’s jazz ensemble will perform at the Musical Arts Center at 8 p.m. Nov. 20. The performance will be the group’s last concert of the fall semester and will ...

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