Walt Dunbar figured his saxophone-playing days were over when he moved from “Big Band Central” in New Jersey to Southwest Virginia, where bluegrass is king. As he and wife Judy were cleaning out for ...
NEW YORK — Clarence Clemons, the larger-than-life saxophone player for the E Street Band who was one of the key influences in Bruce Springsteen’s life and music through four decades, has died. He was ...
COOPERSTOWN — The Cooperstown Summer Music Festival’s 25th anniversary season will open at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 1, at the Otesaga Resort Hotel at 60 Lake St. in Cooperstown, with Harry Allen’s All ...
GRAND RAPIDS — Veteran saxophonist Rolly Smith acknowledges that when he first started playing in fellow saxman Joe Uzarski’s “avant-fusion” band Space Bar, he found the music really “weird.” ...
British saxophonist Jess Gillam lit up the Ordway Concert Hall this week in St. Paul, in the first saxophone recital presented by the Schubert Club’s “International Artist Series.” Performing with ...
Charles Neville’s serene stage presence and soulful saxophone mastery earned him the affectionate title of “the horn man” while playing with his siblings in The Neville Brothers, one of New Orleans’ ...
David Bowie first arrived at the attention of the music industry with the 1969 hit “Space Oddity”. It was just a preview of Bowie’s incredible talent, and he went on to produce incredible music and ...
I arrived early at Lumen Field for rehearsal carrying a borrowed alto saxophone. I'd spent a few days before reacquainting myself with music; squeaking out ugly sounds, pausing mid-measure to YouTube ...
The University Jazz Band, Jazz Lab Band, and Jazz Ensemble played music inspired by the legendary Count Basie at the joint ...