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 ...

The Munich-based ensemble returns to the Linde Center with a program pairing Bach fugues with contemporary preludes, creating ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's fitting that the cover of saxophonist Mark Lopeman's latest album, Nice Work If You Can Get It, is a watercolor portrait from his daughter Rosie. After all, Lopeman approaches his instrument like ...

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 ...

2 On Your Side's Claudine Ewing interviewed Grammy-nominated smooth jazz saxophonist Boney James. Is 'The West' over? Hundreds of residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Helene. Not one has been ...

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 ...