Unlike the structured precision of a piano-driven quartet, saxophone-guitar albums thrive on spontaneity. Imagine a smoky jazz club where the deep, soulful wail of a saxophone weaves effortlessly with ...

No one is outside tradition. But it is boring when music becomes a set of rules and the aim is trying to sound like someone else. The original will always be better. Gustav Mahler said that ‘Tradition ...

Guitar in jazz / Leonard Feather -- Nick Lucas / Nick Lucas and Jas Obrecht -- Eddie Lang / James Sallis -- From blues to jazz guitar / Dan Lambert -- Jazz guitar duet: a fifty-year history / Richard ...

Evgeny Pobozhiy, a virtuoso guitarist with a busy profile on the Moscow jazz scene, has won the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz International Guitar Competition. As winner of the prize, one of the ...

Pizzarelli, who died April 1 of COVID-19, played with Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Rosemary Clooney, among others. He spoke to Fresh Air in '92 and again, with his son John, in '06.

There’s a smallish club called Rockwood Music Hall on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, around the corner from the legendary Katz’s Delicatessen. It’s the sort of place a young, striving musician might ...

Calvin's Coffee House hosted a phone free jazz jam on Feb. 25, allowing students the chance to unwind during midterms or ...