Disc 1: One Bass Hit, Oop Bop Sh Bam, That's Earl Brother, Be Bop In Pastel, Fool's Fancy, Bombay, Ray's Idea, Serenade To A Square, Good Kick, Seven Up, Blues In Bebop, Epistrophy, 52nd Street Theme, ...

Learn about well-known alto saxophone players. See how their music, style, and talent made them stand out around the world.

Almost no other instrument seems so synonymous with jazz as the sax. Listen to some classic alto playing from Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt and more greats.

This recent four-disc set covers the period 1946-1952, during which Sonny Stitt made the transition from promising young bebopper to jazz master. It is typical of the British Proper boxes; it's ...

Frank Morgan, a jazz saxophonist whose promising career was derailed by drug problems in the 1950s but whose triumphant comeback 30 years later led to an unexpected taste of midlife stardom, died ...

Cecil Payne, 84, a baritone saxophonist and leading exponent of the bebop style of jazz, died Nov. 27 at a nursing home in Stratford, N.J., the Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., reported. The cause of ...

But the pop song “Just the Way You Are,” with Woods’ piercing alto saxophone solo, made his sound instantly recognizable to the millions who listened to Top 40 music. Woods, whom some considered the ...

When Eddie Berger, a Twin Cities jazz saxophone mainstay, was growing up in Philadelphia, he was a clarinet player. In his early years, he was partial to swing music, idolizing the likes of Benny ...

For more than 60 years, saxophonist and composer Gary Bartz has been a central figure in jazz history. But for some reason, he hasn't received his due. With that said, the late jazz critic Stanley ...

Audiences will get to hear two stories – one haunting, one playful – told over a jazz melody at the New Mexico Highlands ...