In the early days of 2023, Shabaka Hutchings announced he’d be putting down his saxophone. This meant curtains or an indefinite hiatus for his celebrated jazz bands Sons of Kemet and The Comet Is ...

(CBS NEWS) - "Anchorman" Ron Burgundy may be on to something with his flute playing. Though the instrument doesn't come close to the guitar or saxophone, it is on a list of the sexiest instruments, ...

The British musician is an artist in residence at Winter Jazzfest in New York this week, playing an instrument group that he first picked up in 2019. By Hugh Morris Reporting from London As Shabaka ...

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, ...

Picking up his saxophone after an extended hiatus, Hutchings expands his musical world with shakuhachi flutes and ...

Let’s think about what it takes to master something. You spend years committing to practicing, performing and honing your craft. You might get so good that you’re widely considered one of the best at ...

Eyes squeezed shut, biceps straining, his rangy frame doubled over his “big metal horn”, he’d improvise feverish passages of energy, working with musicians on synths and drums, he has said, to affect ...

14 year-old flutist Nikka vs. 18 year-old saxophonist Gisela Nikka Gershman, a 14 year-old flutist from the United States, performs "Orfeo ed Euridice" by Christoph Willibald Gluck. Then, Gisela ...

When the reverb is out of this world... Being a curiously inclined species, musicians have long been fascinated with the possibilities of playing their instruments inside cooling towers. (Just listen ...