Learn about well-known alto saxophone players. See how their music, style, and talent made them stand out around the world.

Break out your sunglasses and get ready for a good time because it’s National Saxophone Day! The holiday marks the birthday ...

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 ...

And overshadowed by more flamboyant musicians, Coleman has nonetheless kept his cool. Nowadays he is understood as one of the greatest jazz musicians: in 2015, he was named a National Endowment for ...

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.

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 ...

Sultry saxophonist Marion Meadows is cool, and we're not just talking about his Bob Marley-esque dreadlocks or seriously sexy physique that he struts during his live shows. He's the poster child for ...

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 ...

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 ...