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 ...

A Redding doctor wants people to seek therapy — smooth jazz therapy — when his band plays its annual concert later this month at Old City Hall in Redding. Family doctor David Short is the front man ...

It's considered by many to be music's sexiest instrument. Its versatile sound, so like a great singer's voice — sweetly seductive one moment, growling and blustery the next — has become virtually ...

As a high school student in Massachusetts, Sarah Hanahan didn't like her academic classes. In fact, she admits, "I just hated school. I always knew, like, 'I can't do this. This just isn't me.'" "It's ...

Riddle me this: What kind of music does Santa Claus prefer above all others? The answer, of course, is cool jazz. That’s what everybody digs up at the North Pole. The same is true at Jazz at Lincoln ...

Hot Summer Nights, Cool Jazz, the LSU School of Music’s trademark annual summer jazz series, will return for two special edition performances at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, June 9-10, featuring the ...

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 ...

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 ...

John Gunther teaches our jazz saxophone majors, including BM, MM and DMA students. At all levels, Gunther works with his students to develop and maintain a solid foundation in the physical aspects of ...

Shades of Blue By James Kaplan, Translated by Kim Jae-sung, Epoch, 660 pages, 42,000 Korean won Jazz was above all a dazzling music. During the Big Band era, when ensembles often featured over 10 ...