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.

Sugarloaf Middle School’s Fall Concert held on October 14 was directed by longtime music teacher Joe Dallas. The ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Buffalo Tom's mini arts fest arrives, there’s a Ren Faire and ...

The Rev. Bill Carter remembers the story his mother told him about attending a Louis Armstrong concert in Venango County as a ...

Pharoah Sanders’ 1977 release Izipho Zam (My Gifts) on the Strata-East label is a fascinating listen. Widely regarded as a landmark in the evolution of free jazz, it continues to grow on me—and that, ...

At the Hot Club of New York, patrons revisit the music’s past by spinning shellac 78 RPM discs of recordings made in the ...

The University of Connecticut Jazz Combos took to von der Mehden Recital Hall on Sunday, Nov. 2, for an afternoon performance featuring jazz groups filled with UConn students.

Jazz is attracting a new generation of fans and the EFG London Jazz Festival is here to cater to them with global superstars flying in from all corners. Tomoki Sanders is jetting in from New York with ...

A painting in the arrivals hall at Cork Airport has long shown many of the greats who have played the city’s jazz festival. Upfront are four legends of the music – Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, ...

Ten years ago, I was in Chicago to cover the annual late-summer Jazz Festival there, and I was on a mission to hear local and regional musicians who hadn’t made it big in New York just yet. During a ...

Daniel Herskedal lives in one of the coldest places in Norway. The virtuoso brass player, an acclaimed if somewhat unlikely star of European jazz, recently moved to Røros, an old copper-mining town ...