In addition to playing with giants like Art Blakey and Miles Davis, he’s spent years touring with solo-era Sting, performed with Harry Connick Jr. and the Grateful Dead, and fronted the jazz-rock-funk ...

In this episode of Backstage Jazz, tenor saxophonist Taylor Clay talks about his upcoming residency at Nocturne and Denver's jazz music scene. About Taylor Clay was born in Brooklyn, NY, and began his ...

An interview with Grammy-nominated smooth jazz saxophonist Boney James To stream WGRZ on your phone, you need the WGRZ app.

It's been 30 years since gay, smooth jazz superstar Dave Koz released his eponymous major label debut. Since then he has gone on to release more than a dozen studio albums, including his latest, A New ...

James Carter, a longtime saxophone innovator and collaborator with Wynton Marsalis, will be at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston on September 21. He talked with GBH Music’s Jazz on 89.7 hosts Al Davis and ...

Jazzifying an essential indie filmmaker’s oeuvre is a fascinating concept that could go terribly wrong. But Baltimore-area saxophonist Amanda Gardier executes her new album Auteur: Music Inspired by ...

Since he was a child, Brandon Douthitt has been fascinated with jazz music. “I always loved music — I was always humming, whistling or doing something,” Douthitt says. “But with jazz, I was attracted ...

There comes a time in every great artist’s life when all the lessons they’ve learned go out the window and everything starts flowing on raw emotion. For Wayne Shorter, one such moment occurred during ...