People are often surprised to learn Vanessa Collier describes herself as shy and introverted. Those labels don’t skew with the vibrant and charismatic blues, soul and funk singer and saxophone player ...

The subject of a forthcoming documentary film, Maurice Reedus, the local musician who goes by the name “The Sax Man” played a special concert on Thursday night at House of Blues that reunited him with ...

Over the years, Boston-based saxophonist Gordon Beadle has backed up some of the top rock, blues and R&B artists in the business — people such as Jay McShann, Jimmy Witherspoon, Luther “Guitar Junior” ...

When Chicago blues musician Eddie Shaw played his saxophone, the room seemed to quake. His immense, raspy, growling sound cut through the instrumentals surrounding him. His ornate solos packed vast ...

Political conscience occupies a special place in the quintessence of modern jazz, fueling, in its most heated moments, the stuff of blunt insurrection. It remains to be seen whether Political Blues, ...

One of the major transitions in the blues took place after thousands of Mississippians moved to Chicago, and drew upon the acoustic sounds of the Delta to create electrified Chicago blues. One of the ...

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.

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, designated by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History as a time to celebrate the legacy of jazz. April was designated Jazz Appreciation Month in part ...

A jazz and blues band has issued an appeal for more saxophone players. Middlesbrough Jazz and Blues Orchestra currently only has two but needs around eight. Band leader Andrew Kerensky said the band ...

Curtis Stigers should have been spending this week getting ready for a UK tour with Barry Manilow. Instead, the jazz singer and saxophonist has been self-isolating at home in Idaho, with his May and ...

What do you get when you marry a saxophone and a cello? The answer is SXNCELLO, the husband/wife artistic team of Ashley James and Lily Thornton, known to social media as “that couple who perform ...