There are precious few venues interested in presenting solo saxophone recitals, so Phillip Greenlief has made a habit of finding his own gigs. The footloose Oakland horn player has taken his tenor sax ...

NEW BOOK! ESSENTIAL SOLOS FOR ALTO SAX, TENOR SAX, GUITAR, TRUMPET & FLUTE - 28 Solos on Popular Jazz Standards Saxophonist, author and educator, Jeff Harrington, is a Professor at Berklee College of ...

Travis Laplante was 10 when he made what would turn out to be one of the most important decisions of his life. He was a fourth-grader in Woodstock, Vt., and it was time to choose an instrument to play ...

Virginia Genta is a young Italian saxophonist that has already established herself on the international free jazz scene with the hard working, constantly touring Jooklo Duo (with David Vanzan on drums ...

When tenor saxophonist John Coltrane recorded his composition "Giant Steps" in 1959, he created something that changed the way musicians thought about improvisation and harmony. Decades earlier, the ...

The saxophone can sound sad, fun, or full of emotion, and few other instruments show emotion as well as it does. Since Adolphe Sax invented it in the 1840s, this brass and woodwind hybrid has gone ...

Many consider composer/alto saxophonist John Zorn a seminal figure on the contemporary music scene. But what he produced — it’s hard to say he simply plays — before a capacity crowd Tuesday night at ...