These days, the great tenor saxophonist and composer Pharoah Sanders shuffles when he walks, the result of a broken hip last year that’s on the mend. The free-jazz titan moved slowly across the dance ...

Originally published on March 3, 2020. The shiny, handsome and undeniably cool saxophone has been a staple of jazz music and popular culture for nearly a century. But some music historians say that ...

Rising tenor sax star Melissa Aldana knows how to make an impact. The Chilean native released her first two albums before she graduated in 2009 from Boston’s Berklee College of Music, to which she had ...

Besides staying in shape for either the NBA Draft or Tennessee basketball's next season, he's been working on his saxophone skills. In a video posted by the Tennessee basketball Twitter account, Pons ...

The couple danced beneath the sax man’s front window. At first, Joe Lawton, 85, didn’t know the couple was there. He was merely practicing in his living room, confined to his home by the lockdown ...

Hmmm. I don’t know quite what to make of this – a Digital Saxophone, from Yamaha. The YDS-150, to be precise. Yes, there is such a thing. ‘Does it play itself?’ was my first question, and the answer ...

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 ...

There is not a single degree of separation between saxophone legend Charles Lloyd and such American music icons as B.B. King, Ornette Coleman and the Grateful Dead. Or, for that matter, between Lloyd ...

Sometimes, economies of scale don’t work in our favor. While guitarists and singers will find themselves well catered to by the accessories market, players of fancier, less popular instruments will ...