"I am always trying to make that melody sing because I love melodies. Even if there is no lyric, I'm still singing it." That's Houston Person, who's been letting his soulful tenor saxophone do his ...

A rising blues singer and saxophonist whose three albums in five years has gotten her nominated for five Blues Music Awards, will headline downtown Allentown’s 12th annual Blues, Brews and Barbecue ...

They don’t call Carla Brownlee “Hurricane” for nothing. On a recent Tuesday at Wilbur’s Bar and Grill, the sax player blows into her horn with enough energy to rock the audience. True to her nickname, ...

Long recognized as an avant-garde fixture with creativity up the wazoo, the World Saxophone Quartet has a language all its own. Its four-part harmony flows worlds apart from the norm while its ...

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, designated by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History as a time to celebrate the legacy of jazz. April was designated Jazz Appreciation Month in part ...

CHICAGO — It’s one of the most thrilling musical scenes in a film packed with them: Aretha Franklin sings and struts around her tiny Maxwell Street diner, imploring her musician boyfriend to “Think” ...

People are often surprised to learn Vanessa Collier describes herself as shy and introverted. Those labels don’t skew with the vibrant and charismatic blues, soul and funk singer and saxophone player ...

Mantes-la-Ville (France) (AFP) – After the financial blues of the Covid pandemic, the French saxophone maker favoured by American jazz greats celebrates its 100th birthday looking to expand further in ...

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, ...

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, designated by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History as a time to celebrate the legacy of jazz. April was designated Jazz Appreciation Month in part ...