Baritone saxophonist Claire Daly celebrates the music and influence of the great Rahsaan Roland Kirk with all the enthusiasm promised by the title of Rah! Rah!, her new album. Set for an October 2 ...

Dedicating oneself to the baritone saxophone indicates a big personality, so it's surprising that few jazz stars have emerged on the instrument. Aside from Gerry Mulligan and Pepper Adams (from the ...

High School Students Can Win Top Prizes Including a Selmer Saxophone I won a Selmer baritone saxophone last year and it ...

In 1976, when the World Saxophone Quartet played its first concert, it introduced a new sound to jazz. No bass. No drums. No piano. Just four saxophones: the late Julius Hemphill playing alto, with ...

For more than four decades, Hamiet Bluiett found a way to combine the avant-garde with traditional jazz. Along the way, he redefined the role of the baritone saxophone, and co-founded one of the most ...

Born in Lochgelly, Scotland in 1929, Temperley is America's oldest baritone sax artist, and one of the true anchors of the global jazz scene. Courtesy of Jazz at Lincoln Center Slinking in through the ...

If one baritone saxophone counts as a curiosity, and two make up an anomaly, what do three, four or more playing together at New Orleans Jazz Fest amount to? The answer - or at least, one answer - is ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scottish-born baritone saxophonist Joe Temperley, a former member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and a founding member of Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, has died ...

South Side High School and South Side Middle School teamed up for a Feb. 11 jazz concert featuring combined performances by ...

Six of the New Orleans' premier musicians reached down low Saturday to provide one of those only-at-New Orleans-Jazz-Fest highlights. Ann Maloney / The Times-PicayuneRoger Lewis, who conceived the ...

Have you ever heard a Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone in the 1840s? It is a versatile woodwind instrument known for its smooth, expressive sound. Saxophonists are musicians who use the smooth, ...