mixed jazz with civil rights messages, making a bold impact. His voice carried strong emotions, blending with powerful drumming. Sonny Rollins’s smooth and warm vocal tone matched his saxophone ...

"If you sing one of the songs that they're famous ... Artie Shaw and Teddy Wilson. Prominent jazz saxophonist Lester Young is widely credited as nicknaming Holiday "Lady Day." ...

Hiram Remón, renowned for his encyclopedic knowledge of the vocal traditions of Latin America, passed at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, NY Saturday June 14 of natural causes. His death was confirmed by ...

Despite the existence of scat-like singing in the folk music ... scat swiftly became a distinctive feature of jazz’s modernity that, along with the saxophone, syncopation, improvisation and ...

and free jazz. But amidst this cosmic diversity, there's a rare constellation that shines especially bright: the saxophone-guitar quartet. Uncommon yet consistently electrifying, these albums groove, ...

A mysterious synergy happened to jazz saxophonist Dave McMurray a few years ... I look at it like I’m the singer. I want to sing what I’m playing (with my saxophone). I look at songs that ...

Jazz meets classical, pop, soul and more at the premiere performance of Jazz at Helen’s summer series, featuring Indianapolis ...