Herskedal makes a rare visit to Ireland this month, appearing with the pianist Helge Lien and the percussionist Helge Andreas ...
Queens-born saxophonist John DiFiore, who played with legends like the Glenn Miller Band, has spent 50 years teaching and performing jazz in Fargo-Moorhead.
Famed Chicago tenor saxophonist Earle Lavon “Von” Freeman, once told Tony Sarabia that he was never meant to be a teacher. Saxophonist Frank Catalano and percussionist Kahil El’Zabar strongly disagree ...
Receiving two awards from the Jazz Journalists Association at the Dakota Jazz Club on Monday night, 61-year-old saxophonist Joe Lovano remarked that he has “only scratched the surface” as a composer ...
It may be impossible to fully measure saxophonist Fred Anderson’s impact on music in Chicago–and around the world. As tenor saxophonist, he invented a rugged, craggy musical language that influenced ...
Prior to the late 1930s the trumpet was king of the jazz jungle. Coleman Hawkins, along with Lester Young and Chu Berry, established the solo role of the tenor sax in the jazz world and showed what it ...
Von Freeman was revered as a tenor saxophonist but was never a major star, worshiped by critics but perpetually strapped for cash. He seemed to purposely avoid commercial success. When trumpeter Miles ...
This Friday and Saturday evening, Nov. 16 and 17, the Reno Jazz Orchestra is proud to feature Doug Coomler as guest conductor in our Midtown home. Doug is our first tenor saxophonist, and has been ...
It's not easy to decide what to go see at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival. Who has time to look all these groups up on YouTube? The biographies don't help. "A sharply distinctive, ...
Cannonball, Dizzy, Fats, Duke and Zoot. Jazz nicknames tend to be both colorful and euphonious, and one of the best belongs to Michael Andrew ”Peanuts” Hucko, the Benny Goodman-inspired clarinetist ...
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