What is your favorite saxophone part or parts in a rock ’n’ roll song? The sax is one of my favorite instruments. Its importance in jazz music cannot be overstated, but it also is a instrumental in ...
Nashville saxophonist Dennis Taylor has been studying and playing the saxophone more than 25 years, 18 of them as a prolific session contributor and soloist. He has played on four Grammy-nominated ...
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You might be surprised to find out just how often the saxophone is used in classic rock. Not just relegated to jazz or big band music, there are sax players who roll and growl, swoop and dive on their ...
Political conscience occupies a special place in the quintessence of modern jazz, fueling, in its most heated moments, the stuff of blunt insurrection. It remains to be seen whether Political Blues, ...
My good friend and writer Alan Paul, who I’ve known and worked with for many years, interviewed Dion for the Wall Street Journal and managed to also grab some phone time with Bruce Springsteen, who ...
If you closed your eyes and listened to Samantha Fish’s solo battle with her drummer, you wouldn’t picture a woman with a blond, curly, retro bob shredding guitar the way she was. Fish brought her ...
Curtis Stigers should have been spending this week getting ready for a UK tour with Barry Manilow. Instead, the jazz singer and saxophonist has been self-isolating at home in Idaho, with his May and ...
It's impossible to think of the Pink Panther -- that sly cat who starred in the opening credits of the classic 1963 Peter Sellers comedy of the same name and in scores of Saturday morning cartoons -- ...