Melle played the tenor and baritone ... Blue Note and Prestige sessions. For the post, I spoke with Hal McKusick, who played with him, and Raymond De Felitta, who grew up down the block from the Melle ...

And we don’t usually see a woman playing baritone saxophone, but for Claire Daly, once she discovered that instrument, there was no stopping her. “I started out on alto sax, which was my ...

By Giovanni Russonello Claire Daly, who was regarded by both her fellow musicians and critics as a standard-bearer on the baritone saxophone, died on Tuesday on a friend’s farm in Longmont ...