Mark Taylor is one of the most in demand saxophonists in the Pacific Northwest. A Seattle native and resident, Mark's personal sound and style are a fixture on the local jazz scene and have given him ...

Suzanne Grzanna / Sax Diva® is a Multi-Award Songwriter, Saxophonist, Vocalist, Arranger, Producer, Music Publisher, Sync Music Library, and #1 iTunes charting musician who composes music and lyrics.

There is not a single degree of separation between saxophone legend Charles Lloyd and such American music icons as B.B. King, Ornette Coleman and the Grateful Dead. Or, for that matter, between Lloyd ...

James Carter, a longtime saxophone innovator and collaborator with Wynton Marsalis, will be at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston on September 21. He talked with GBH Music’s Jazz on 89.7 hosts Al Davis and ...

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 ...

Jazz saxophone improvisation is more than playing the right notes—it's about expressing your unique voice in real time. From mastering scales and chord progressions to shaping tone and using ...

Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins seems determined to engage more of his audiences’ senses than just their ears. In performances of his album Blues Blood in 2025, a chef prepared an Afro Caribbean stew ...

It's considered by many to be music's sexiest instrument. Its versatile sound, so like a great singer's voice — sweetly seductive one moment, growling and blustery the next — has become virtually ...

The soprano saxophone, unlike the clarinet or tenor sax, was never popular in jazz until Sidney Bechet, who was the first jazz musician to use it exclusively. A contemporary of Louis Armstrong and ...

Anthony Ortega did almost everything imaginable in a music career that stretched over 70 years that included leading a weekly Sunday jam session — into his mid-90s — until his health began to fail in ...

In the early 1840s, Belgian instrument maker and musician Adolphe Sax set out to create a new sound for orchestras and ...

The Piano Man celebrated International Jazz Day with an electrifying ensemble featuring global artists, channeling New Orleans' spirit of jazz.