John Gunther teaches our jazz saxophone majors, including BM, MM and DMA students. At all levels, Gunther works with his students to develop and maintain a solid foundation in the physical aspects of ...

Unlike the structured precision of a piano-driven quartet, saxophone-guitar albums thrive on spontaneity. Imagine a smoky jazz club where the deep, soulful wail of a saxophone weaves effortlessly with ...

Almost no other instrument seems so synonymous with jazz as the sax. Listen to some classic alto playing from Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt and more greats. Credit...Illustration by ...

Stanley Crouch, one of the nation's most prominent jazz critics, is the author of the just-released Kansas City Lightning --part one of a... Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, early 1942. The Jay McShann ...

Veteran sax and flute player Lew Tabackin, a product of South Philadelphia, is one of the “Jazz Jews” discussed in Mike Gerber’s new book of that name. Tabackin performs in a quartet with his wife, ...

Invented in the early 1840s, the saxophone was a relative latecomer to music—and to jazz. But starting in the mid-1920s, with the rise of the big bands, the instrument slowly but steadily evolved from ...

Ron Dewar performing at Natures Table, a popular health-food restaurant and jazz venue in Urbana operated by Terry Masar from 1979 to 1991. Clockwise from left, Mark Kirk, Guido Sinclair and Ron Dewar ...

Li Minsheng is one of the junior members of the "Old Jazz Band" at Shanghai's ornate Fairmont Peace Hotel. He's 76. Frequently described as the oldest jazz band on the planet and once recognised as ...