Piano and saxophone duets are jazz distilled to its bare essentials: one linear melodic voice interacting with a chordal and rhythmic partner, also capable of leading the line. What these two European ...

Street musicians often can be a nuisance to New York City subway riders. But these two saxophonists put on a welcome show that passengers would not soon forget.

David Murray was the tenor saxophonist of the 1980s and ’90s, as a junior member of the World Saxophone Quartet, then as leader of a dozen different ensembles (from duets to big band and ...

Wayne Shorter was a jazz sax superhero Shorter died Thursday at 89, leaving the world a lonelier place for the few true geniuses who still walk the earth.

At a fundraiser for A Place of Jazz, two current saxophonists salute two all-time greats.

Donald Trump's remarks about Putin leave Russian state TV stunned Kate Middleton’s Stylist and Assistant of 15 Years Announces Her Resignation He seeded clouds over Texas. Then came the ...

One of Europe’s most influential free-jazz musicians, he played with “a kind of scream” to exorcise his demons, and those of German history.

The modern evolution of cumbia connects electronics to the folk tradition. For Terror/Cactus, the beats are spare, and the ...

Seventy years ago, Charlie Parker and four other be-bop legends created what many call the greatest jazz concert ever— with Parker playing a plastic saxophone. A reissue of the recording is out.

David Murray was the tenor saxophonist of the 1980s and ’90s, as a junior member of the World Saxophone Quartet, then as leader of a dozen different ensembles (from duets to big band and ...

Here, then, are for me the 10 best new jazz recordings of 2024, followed by three historical treasures that have, for the most part, lain in the archives till now.