Angela Kraft is a jazz saxophone player and music instructor who has lived in the greater St. Louis area for most of her life ...

Get ready for a night of incredible jazz as Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Eric Marienthal takes the stage in Hawaii! Hawaii Saxophone Foundation President Todd Yukumoto and Eric joined Living808 to ...

When saxophonist Richard Howell talks about his formative influences, he doesn’t just name the jazz legends he consorted with as a young musician. The Southern California native got his start on the ...

Invented in the early 1840s, the saxophone was a relative latecomer to music—and to jazz. But starting in the mid-1920s, with the rise of the big bands, the instrument slowly but steadily evolved from ...

This is the maiden voyage for a new All About Jazz column devoted to the recordings of live jazz music. It is the ostensible extension of the recently completed triptych, The Ten Best Live Rock ...

The sounds of sirens, as opposed to the sounds of silence, mean different things to different people. Sirens blare at the start of “Amerikkan Skin,” the leadoff track from Lakecia Benjamin’s fourth ...

It’s probably too broad a generalization to describe the saxophone as the sole jazz instrument of change. But its influence, from the sweeping glissandos of Johnny Hodges and hard-bitten muscularity ...

NEWARK - Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, has died. He ...