The flute is one of the more overlooked instruments in jazz, but it’s been making an impact on improvised music for more than 50 years. Let 10 experts take you on a guided tour. By Giovanni Russonello ...

Born in Puerto Rico in 1957, Néstor Torres began learning the flute at the age of 12. Moving with his family to New York when he was 18, he studied jazz and classical music at the Mannes College of ...

Katisse Buckhingham starred as the kid who gave Alyssa Milano a hickey on Who's the Boss. It gets better: He also played flute and saxophone on The Chronic. Actually, it gets even better than that: He ...

The tale of two pied pipers is told on two new CDs: one by Dave Valentin and the other by Gerald Beckett. Starting with the spirited original "Meet You At The Coda , Valentin plays through a set of ...

If you ask jazz flutist Ali Ryerson about her career path in music, she’ll tell you this: “I had what I call a perfect storm to become a jazz player growing up.” Her three older brothers were ...

It's easy to make the case for a symbiosis between wine and jazz but harder to sound persuasive when arguing that the perfect accompaniment to listening to jazz on a crisp autumn afternoon is a nice ...

Mark Weinstein is a master jazz flutist who was once a master jazz trombonist. In 1966, he played trombone on Cuban Roots, a prized cult classic which blended Afro-Cuban folkloric music with jazz.

Ron Burgundy has two passions: Becoming a network anchor and playing the jazz flute. While he would achieve the former in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, one of the highlights of Adam McKay and ...

A scroll through Lizzo’s Instagram is likely to produce any number of gems, from racy photoshoot outtakes to unprompted auditions for the role of “Ursula” in a yet-to-made, live-action Little Mermaid ...

Everyone who has been patiently awaiting a recorder remix of Miley Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball” can finally rejoice. There is a majestically captivating and atrocious version of the song where Cyrus’s ...