Piano and saxophone duets are jazz distilled to its bare essentials: one linear melodic voice interacting with a chordal and rhythmic partner, also capable of leading the line. What these two European ...

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.

Freedom. Free-dom. What is it? And how do you get it? In music the word denotes something specific. At least in jazz. It means in part starting out a musical performance with the idea that what is ...

While I was playing “Careless Whisper” on piano, a guy with a saxophone joined in — and what followed was an unexpected but amazing live duet. The smooth sax, the nostalgic melody, and the spontaneous ...

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, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When semi-free-jazz London drum-and-sax duo Binker and Moses won Best Jazz Act at the Mobo awards last year, ...

Clearing our diary of any other social engagements, we prepared ourselves for a night of eclectic music and sweet melodies on the festival's biggest night. Saturday promised a seriously great ensemble ...

Student musicians from the region recently participated in the Western State Solo and Ensemble Festival in Missoula. The festival held May 5-6 featured students who received superior ratings at the ...