Dimming one’s light in the face of haters is not something Lidia Rodriguez knows how to do. Whenever she gets comments from guys about her size or gender, the baritone player is quick to clap back ...

Gerry Mulligan has been playing his baritone saxophone in jazz clubs and concert halls for nearly 40 years now. He still has difficulty explaining what first drew him to the mammoth instrument. ”I ...

Call it stereotyping, but the truth is occasionally we’ll see a pairing of musician and instrument we don’t expect. We’d be surprised, for example, to find a burly, hulking guy playing a piccolo. We’d ...