Melissa Aldana, who became the first female instrumentalist and first South American musician to win the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition last fall, is not the average ...

It was an amazing sight Tuesday at the Jazz Bakery -- a trio of brawny baritone saxophonists spread across the stage with the rip-snorting, foot-stomping vitality of a line of rhinos ready to charge ...

The English trio S.O.S. — saxophonists John Surman, Mike Osborne and Alan Skidmore — was formed in 1973, and made only one LP for the Ogun label a couple years later. They didn't last long, but they ...

There is something Baroque about jazz ensembles lacking a piano or guitar as a harmony instrument . Their absence frees previously occupied sonic space for other uses. The format also sets up a more ...

Happy birthday to the memory of Clifford Brown. --The Jazz Internet In Pittsburgh: I recently received an e-mail from reader Greg Runco, a video producer and jazz fan in Pittsburgh, Penn. Runco, 24, ...

When Mr. Laff’s closed its Davie doors last year, some wondered whether the entertainment complex would return, but the club reappeared shortly before the start of ’95. Now in Sunrise, Mr. Laff’s is ...

The saxophone-bass-drums trio is the terra incognita of the improvisatory world, a rugged upland terrain where harmony attenuates like thinning air and there’s nowhere to hide, for musicians and ...

Melissa Aldana, who became the first female instrumentalist and first South American musician to win the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition last fall, is not the average ...