Universal Motown Digital (UniMO) is proud to announce Ava Lemert's new album, “12welve" is now available for instant download from Amazon mp3 for $8.99 or for just $9.99 iTunes will include an ...

In honor of this year's Public Radio Music Day, discover regional musicians heard on KNKX, who frequently perform live throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Pharoah Sanders’ 1977 release Izipho Zam (My Gifts) on the Strata-East label is a fascinating listen. Widely regarded as a landmark in the evolution of free jazz, it continues to grow on me—and that, ...

The Boscov’s Berks Jazz Fest Encore Online concert series continues this weekend with two concerts recorded at past festivals that will stream in their entirety on the Jazz Fest Facebook page. The ...

Invented in the early 1840s, the saxophone was a relative latecomer to music—and to jazz. But starting in the mid-1920s, with the rise of the big bands, the instrument slowly but steadily evolved from ...

Fans of saxophone player Richard Oppenheim owe a debt of gratitude to two things: a fingernail chart and Hebrew school. “I started on guitar when I was 6. I studied classical guitar until I was 10,” ...

The plastic Grafton alto saxophone that Charlie Parker played during a 1953 performance has returned to its place in the American Jazz Museum. Charlie Parker’s Grafton alto saxophone has returned to ...

The saxophone can sound sad, fun, or full of emotion, and few other instruments show emotion as well as it does. Since Adolphe Sax invented it in the 1840s, this brass and woodwind hybrid has gone ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Manu Dibango (pictured), the great saxophonist, is no more. The Cameroon jazz maestro, who was 86-years old, succumbed ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

TAMPA — While most of the attention on Kansas City, Missouri, during Super Bowl weekend is on the city’s football team, another “crown jewel” of the city also is in Florida. Mayor Quinton Lucas and ...