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(Robin Lubbock/WBUR) After Carney died his last baritone saxophone went to the jazz sax player Pat Patrick, who had his own 40-year association with a famous jazz band, and band leader, Sun Ra.
The Story of the Saxophone is their latest children's book, inspired by a mutual love of jazz. The couple had just finished watching Jazz, the 2001 PBS documentary, and James Ransome had an idea.
The jazz spectrum is wide, so wide that adherents of one sect could have virtually no kinship with another. Sam Rivers and ...
He is also arguably the top saxophone player in this dusty town. I say arguably because we have a freakishly huge pool of talent in this town, people like Mark Langa and Brian Mugenyi. It is ...
American saxophonist Pharoah Sanders and British producer Sam Shepherd (who goes by Floating Points) collaborated on a recent recording, “Promises,” with the London Symphony Orchestra. (Eric ...
The Jazz Saxophone Book also gives the reader access to over 30 videos of the author demonstrating various exercises, which themselves are full of transcribed lines by the masters of jazz saxophone.
When saxophonist Harry Allen, one of the finest mainstream jazz players around and a multiple award winner on a global scale, comes to Schenectady on Friday to pay homage to two other saxophonists ...
Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz Hear Jimmy Heath's 2001 Piano Jazz Session In a career that spanned seven decades, Heath brought the bebop he loved to big bands — and into the 21st century.
Joe Lawton plays the jazz saxophone for a sidewalk crowd outside his Fullerton, CA, home on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. One day, he was practicing in his living room when he opened his window.