Piano and saxophone duets are jazz distilled to its bare essentials: one linear melodic voice interacting with a chordal and rhythmic partner, also capable of leading the line. What these two European ...

Saturday night, there’s a whole lotta saxophone going on at the Chit Chat Café. With their show titled “Duke and Norm – Just Duet,” Duke Hardcastle and Norm Dutton, both on alto sax, will be bringing ...

Freedom. Free-dom. What is it? And how do you get it? In music the word denotes something specific. At least in jazz. It means in part starting out a musical performance with the idea that what is ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When semi-free-jazz London drum-and-sax duo Binker and Moses won Best Jazz Act at the Mobo awards last year, ...

Street musicians often can be a nuisance to New York City subway riders. But these two saxophonists put on a welcome show that passengers would not soon forget. Determined not to just let one musician ...

Fifty years ago, when drummer Rashied Ali entered the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, for his latest session with John Coltrane, he was surprised to find the rest of the saxophonist ...

David Johnke leads the Flathead High School Symphonic Band in a piece called “Lux Aurumque” (‘Light and Gold”) by Eric Whitacre in the District 1 Music Festival on April 5 at Glacier High School.