When someone talks about "West Coast jazz" or "cool jazz," they're almost invariably referring to a style performed by jazz musicians in California (and primarily in Los Angeles) in the '50s and early ...

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 ...

He was a pioneer of the cool school, but he resisted pigeonholing and focused on “making a personal statement.” He died of complications of the coronavirus. By Peter Keepnews This obituary is part of ...

Lee Konitz, an alto saxophonist who was an exemplar of jazz’s so-called “cool school,” died Wednesday in Manhattan of coronavirus complications, according to his niece, Linda Konitz. Unlike the ...

In The Devil's Horn, Segell traces the 160-year history of the saxophone a horn that created a sound never before heard in nature, and that from the moment it debuted has aroused both positive and ...

For two years a young Sonny Rollins practiced in solitude on a windswept New York bridge, setting him on the path to become ...

One of jazz’s most towering voices has gone silent. Sonny Rollins, the tenor saxophonist known as the "Saxophone Colossus," died Monday, May 25, at his home in Woodstock, New York, in Ulster County in ...

A century after the birth of trumpeter Miles Davis and saxophonist John Coltrane, the seminal jazz innovators still pose a deep quandary for musicians looking to celebrate their legacies. Davis, who ...

Konitz, who died April 15, had one of the longest careers in jazz. He was an intuitive soloist, with a mercurial tone, a quick mind and lifelong commitment to improvisation. This is FRESH AIR. Jazz ...