Their program includes music by Claude Debussy, Samuel Barber, Branford’s brother Wynton Marsalis, Ennio Morricone and contemporary British composer Sally Beamish and American composer Michael ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...