Originally consisting of saxophonists David Murray, Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake and Hamiet Bluiett, the World Saxophone Quartet is one of the finest and most unusual small combos in jazz today. The ...
Rova Saxophone Quartet Bop Stop at the Music Settlement Cleveland, OHOctober 4, 2022 One of the inescapable trends in music over the last decade has been the convergence of two traditions in ...
As their band name suggests, Battle Trance—a spiritually-intense, shapeshifting unit led by Vermont/Brooklyn hornsmith Travis Laplante and featuring a unique set-up of four tenor saxophones—wrestle ...
Here are my 10 top albums that made the last 12 months even more worthwhile, and they’ve held up to repeated listening, too: ...
When asked, "How is being in an all-female band different from being in a mixed-gender band?" Mary Sue Tobin of the all-female saxophone quartet the Quadraphones says, "We make a lot of lists!" Then ...
The Midland Saxophone Quartet will celebrate the holidays with a special performance of Jazz Christmas favorites on Saturday, ...
Veteran sax and flute player Lew Tabackin, a product of South Philadelphia, is one of the “Jazz Jews” discussed in Mike Gerber’s new book of that name. Tabackin performs in a quartet with his wife, ...
moon-lit musical night in Delhi's iconic Sunder Nursery with a Saxophone quartet from Germany, a contemporary Jazz and Funk band from India, as well as soulful Sufi and folk songs from the Thar Desert ...
Any new recording from the spectacular saxophonist James Carter is pretty much guaranteed to produce fireworks. But his new album, Caribbean Rhapsody, is his grandest work yet: It's a collaboration ...
Saxophonist Ron Jones will appear with his quartet at Spinoza’s on Sunday, Jan. 30. Contributed photo by Thomas Nance Although saxophonist Ron Jones lives in Louisville, he certainly knows Dayton, ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Vivien Schweitzer THE saxophone, invented by the Belgian-born instrument maker Adolphe Sax around 1840, has seldom achieved prominence in the ...