Count Basie's star tenor man, Lester Young, blazed his own path away from Hawkins' dominant influence, creating a lighter-toned, rhythmically looser approach that looked ahead to the advent of bebop ...

J.D. Allen's Queen City and Jon Irabagon's Bird With Streams are two very different new albums by outstanding tenor saxophonists. This is FRESH AIR. Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead says COVID-era ...

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 8, "Going Solo, The Pittbull and The EWI" from Bill Milkowski's Ode to a Tenor Titan: The Life and Times and Music of Michael Brecker (Backbeat Books, 2022).

His career as an influential tenor saxophonist and composer reached across more than half a century, tracking jazz’s complex evolution during that span.

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Orbert Davis, conductor of the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, performs “Ellingtonia,” a suite about jazz great Duke Ellington, during a performance at Kehrein Center for the Arts in Chicago’s ...

Wayne Shorter, who helped shape modern jazz, died Thursday in Los Angeles, his publicist Alisse Kingsley confirmed to the New York Times and Washington Post. The composer and saxophonist was 89.

Born on April 14, 1925, Ammons was a second-generation jazz musician from Chicago, who earned attention for his fiery work in Billy Eckstine's big band, and his staged duels with fellow saxophonists.

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Michael Brecker, a versatile and highly influential tenor saxophonist who won 11 Grammys over a career that spanned more than three decades, has died. He was 57.

The great tenor saxophonist recorded it in 1959 and laid down an immensely virtuosic, hard-bop improvistaion which was to become regarded as one of the finest and most inventive solos in all jazz.