Seven Days is 30, and we need your help to celebrate. With your donation, we’ll stay on track, delivering rigorous reporting on Vermont news and culture. Composers have written for some unusual duos — ...

Unlike the structured precision of a piano-driven quartet, saxophone-guitar albums thrive on spontaneity. Imagine a smoky jazz club where the deep, soulful wail of a saxophone weaves effortlessly with ...

Blowhards: New players such as Brendan Mills, left, and Lewis Evans, centre are bringing the saxophone back in from the cold (Getty/iStock/The Independent) Get the inside track from Roisin O'Connor ...

My good friend and writer Alan Paul, who I’ve known and worked with for many years, interviewed Dion for the Wall Street Journal and managed to also grab some phone time with Bruce Springsteen, who ...

Pharoah Sanders’ 1977 release Izipho Zam (My Gifts) on the Strata-East label is a fascinating listen. Widely regarded as a landmark in the evolution of free jazz, it continues to grow on me—and that, ...

Shaun Brown, 17, son of Anne and Myles of Swampscott, seems never to have met a musical instrument he didn’t like. He picked up the guitar when he was 12 and the rest is history. Now in his third year ...

All six albums feature influences from Middle Eastern, African, and Asian traditional music. They are all very visual in that they conjure up exotic vistas and locations. These six jazz thrillers from ...

Moon Hooch performs during an April 2023 episode of "That's My Jam." Moon Hooch will be among the performers at this year’s Albany Riverfront Jazz Festival, happening Saturday at Jennings Landing at ...

The Quadraphonnes, Portland’s all-women sax quartet, will perform the music of the eccentric artist Moondog at the Alberta Rose Theater on March 7. Moondog was a blind street musician in New York City ...

It's rare to be able to celebrate a person who invented a popular musical instrument. Mostly, from the guitar to the violin to the flute, musical instruments have evolved over time: There is no Mr.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The summery sounds of cool jazz peaked in the late 1950s with the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s popular hit “Take Five ...

Well known musician/saxophonist and music composer Kavishan Jayasooriya, popularly branded by his stage name ‘Kavee Sax’, has established himself as a prominent figure in the world of music. Born into ...