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 ...

He is revered by many, if not most, baritone saxophone players as the “godfather” of the instrument. He could blow and hold notes on his saxophone like few other players then or since. He was a ...

The burning heat and hard-driving swing of a jazz organ trio will fill Ann Arbor’s Blue Llama Jazz Club on Friday when baritone saxophonist Alex Harding’s Organ Nation plays an evening of standards ...

Jack Nimitz played clarinet and alto saxophone before discovering the baritone sax and falling in love with the instrument's voice. “It sounded so warm and nice and dark and rich," he said. Nimitz ...

Generally regarded as an outsized and unwieldy instrument, the baritone saxophone has not always been accorded the status of its more manageable sister instruments (soprano, alto and tenor) in the ...

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Upper West Siders strolling through Riverside Park in the past weeks and months might have stumbled upon a jazz quartet filling the outdoor air with tunes. The group is led by ...

Saxophonist Skerik was named Northwest Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2003 Earshot Jazz Golden Ear Awards, which honor the best in Northwest jazz. The awards were announced last night at the ...

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. Credit...Illustration by ...

The couple danced beneath the sax man’s front window. At first, Joe Lawton, 85, didn’t know the couple was there. He was merely practicing in his living room, confined to his home by the lockdown ...