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 ...

Whittled down to twin instrumental poles, there can be a temptation to fill the yawning gaps between. However the best duets are those which take the less traveled path, taut without undue rhetoric, ...

Almost no other instrument seems so synonymous with jazz as the sax. Listen to some classic alto playing from Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt and more greats. Credit...Illustration by ...

Saxophonist and senior at Interlake High School jazz band Vikram Jagannathan shares his favorite jazz with KNKX listeners.

Saturday night, there’s a whole lotta saxophone going on at the Chit Chat Café. With their show titled “Duke and Norm – Just Duet,” Duke Hardcastle and Norm Dutton, both on alto sax, will be bringing ...

The alto saxophone is one of the most popular instruments in jazz and pop music, known for its smooth, expressive sound. Over the years, many talented musicians have made their mark playing the alto ...

In the beginning, there was Coleman Hawkins. Coleman Hawkins begat Ben Webster. And Ben Webster begat Lester Young, and Lester Young begat Charlie Parker. And Charlie Parker begat Dexter Gordon, and ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Jazz great Benny Carter hardly ever looked back. He enjoyed whatever he was doing at the moment _ composing or arranging, improvising on the alto sax or trumpet, leading a band or ...