While playing Careless Whisper on piano, a guy came up with his saxophone and asked if he could join in — and just like that, ...

Since the 1840s, when the saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax, the wind instrument named after him has become a key component of jazz groups ranging from big bands to small combos. It was also a ...

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 ...

Woods is Phil Woods, disciple of bebop saxophone pioneer Charlie Parker, and his Saxophone Sonata does a fine job of embedding inside composed music something of the spontaneous soul of jazz ...

Sagrestia Vault will be hosting a saxophone and piano concert on Friday, 5 March. The performance will focus mainly on “shades” of the vast and colourful French repertoire, with the intention of ...

Those who play larger musical instruments, things like drums, piano, harp, tuba, upright bass, or Zeusaphone, know well the challenges of simply transporting their chosen instrument to band practice, ...

While I was playing Careless Whisper on a public piano, this guy walked up with his saxophone. We’d never met — no plan, no ...

Since emerging on the label with his own large ensemble and as part of the collaborative, more improv-heavy group The Source, saxophonist Trygve Seim has been a leading voice in the second wave of ...

A gay pianist and a saxophone player had their neighbors cheering with an impromptu rendition of Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” from their balconies. As the world continues to shut down to fend ...

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 ...