And overshadowed by more flamboyant musicians, Coleman has nonetheless kept his cool. Nowadays he is understood as one of the ...

The saxophone can sound sad, fun, or full of emotion, and few other instruments show emotion as well as it does. Since Adolphe Sax invented it in the 1840s, this brass and woodwind hybrid has gone ...

Lee Konitz, an alto saxophonist who was an exemplar of jazz’s so-called “cool school,” died Wednesday in Manhattan of coronavirus complications, according to his niece, Linda Konitz. Unlike the ...

As a high school student in Massachusetts, Sarah Hanahan didn't like her academic classes. In fact, she admits, "I just hated school. I always knew, like, 'I can't do this. This just isn't me.'" "It's ...

In The Devil's Horn, Segell traces the 160-year history of the saxophone a horn that created a sound never before heard in nature, and that from the moment it debuted has aroused both positive and ...

Val Lemen had no idea that the singer who auditioned for his jazz band years ago would some day become his wife. It was back in 2009 that Lemen was on keyboard along with Chris Brown on tenor sax.

A Redding doctor wants people to seek therapy — smooth jazz therapy — when his band plays its annual concert later this month at Old City Hall in Redding. Family doctor David Short is the front man ...

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 ...

Lee Konitz was the last surviving musician to have played on Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool compilation album Lee Konitz, a celebrated jazz saxophonist, died on Wednesday due to complications from the ...

You know what’s hot? August in Eugene. You know what’s cool in August in Eugene? Jazz. I’m not talking about “cool jazz,” the term of art referring to a particular laid back strain of music that arose ...