It was an amazing sight Tuesday at the Jazz Bakery -- a trio of brawny baritone saxophonists spread across the stage with the rip-snorting, foot-stomping vitality of a line of rhinos ready to charge ...

Baritone saxophonist Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club got its start as the Boston-based CK5: two horns, guitar, bass and drums, so adding a trombone to the mix didn't seem like too much of a stretch ...

Dimming one’s light in the face of haters is not something Lidia Rodriguez knows how to do. Whenever she gets comments from guys about her size or gender, the baritone player is quick to clap back ...

1. Anata; 2. Tasso; 3. Fenice; 4. Due bisonti; 5. Talpa; 6. What; 7. On Tone Yet Part I; 8. On Tone Yet Part II; 9. Micropterus Salmoides; 10. Viejo Lobo; 11. El ...

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 ...

Call it stereotyping, but the truth is occasionally we’ll see a pairing of musician and instrument we don’t expect. We’d be surprised, for example, to find a burly, hulking guy playing a piccolo. We’d ...

Jack Nimitz, a jazz baritone saxophonist who played in the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton big bands and in the group “Supersax,” died Wednesday of complications from emphysema at his home in Studio City ...

Before I lugged my ass to the Chicago Reader in 1993, I spent quite a few years at Jazz Record Mart, and the other day one of my former JRM coworkers, Steve Dawson of Dolly Varden, posted on Facebook ...

The saxophone is one of the most renowned instruments across genres, including jazz, rock and concert bands, among many others. In addition, it makes a great learner instrument for beginners or ...