*In observation of Black Music Month, gospel jazz is a genre that definitely deserves attention, especially “Power,” the new praise and worship instrumental jazz offering from saxophonist Cameron Ross ...

Tenor saxophonist and educator Javon Jackson, who grew up in Denver, currently chairs the Hartt School’s Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz Studies at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. That ...

Billy Harper as he appears on the cover of the 1990 album Destiny Is Yours Credit: Steve Krakow for Chicago Reader Saxophonist Billy Harper has a quote from jazz radio broadcaster Miles Willis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saxophone player Sarah Hanahan will perform with her quartet at SUNY Schenectady on Oct. 3 as part of the A Place For Jazz fall ...

Damien Sneed doesn't believe in coincidences. Each event in his life set a purpose and path for what would follow. "For me, God has been everything in my music and everything to me," he tells Jazz ...

Forging a deeply personal sound from a broad swath of the jazz landscape, saxophonist, composer and arranger TIM GREEN has emerged as a powerful new voice, melding deftly swinging hard bop, fluid ...

As a jazz subgenre, soul-jazz began to flourish in the early 1960s. A groove-oriented style built from the bottom up, soul-jazz usually begins with the bass player: You take a strong bass line, ...

Thirteen-year-old saxophonist Jeremiah Oluwajenyo, popularly known as JeremiahFJ Sax, has continued to capture national attention after emerging first runner-up at the just-concluded De9jaspirit ...

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 ...

Wilton Andrew Machen, known as "Mache", age 65, of Grand Rapids, MI, passed away unexpectedly at his home on Sunday June 26, 2011. Mache was well known in West Michigan as a Jazz and Gospel saxophone ...

Renowned saxophonist Kirk Whalum and Berks County’s own Reading Choral Society, directed by Graham Bier, will collaborate during the popular “Gospel According to Jazz!” concert, back this year for ...