A player of impeccable technique and a mainstay of the Blue Note label, he recorded constantly as both a leader and a sideman ...

Inspired by Charlie Parker to abandon the clarinet in favor of the alto saxophone, Donaldson would come to be considered ...

U.S. saxophonist Lou Donaldson, one of jazz music's last remaining links to the era of bebop in the 1950s who went on to ...

Do you play saxophone, too?” I said ... Art Taylor and longtime collaborator Horace Silver, who the saxophonist brought to ...

The celebrated musician played with legends like Thelonius Monk and George Benson and was also sampled by Nas, De La Soul ...

Man, such saxophone I never heard in my life ... Curly Russell, Art Blakey, Horace Silver, and master sound engineer Rudy Van ...

November 17 courtesy of the Perfect Fourth Saxophone Quartet. The ensemble will be presenting a varied programme of music ...

When Silver was a teenager, he began playing both piano and saxophone while he listened to everything from boogie-woogie and blues to such modern musicians as Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk. As Silver ...

Lou Donaldson, a pioneering figure in the soul jazz movement, passed away on November 9th. He was 98 years old.

Lou Donaldson, an alto saxophonist with a supple, earthy style who was a key figure in the development of three styles of ...

It was in high school that a music teacher introduced him to the tenor saxophone. After graduation he enrolled first ... Benchè il profilo artistico di Horace Silver sia preso a modello in modo ...

You could have the best rock and roll band playing on stage, and a brass band would come and turn the whole house out. Something about that energy that a brass band brings: we got music for your mind, ...