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

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 ...

On his 1956 album ‘Blue Serge,’ the bebop saxophonist Serge Chaloff was joined by East Coast jazz stars Sonny Clark and ...

"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." ...

His saxophone can go from soft and gentle to ... Michael Mayo is a young singer who is bringing new life to vocal jazz. His first album, “Bones,” shows off his wide vocal range and creative ...

SAN DIEGO — Saxophone and flute great James Moody became an international jazz star in 1949. He continued to record and tour around the world until shortly before his death in 2010, in San Diego ...

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 ...

Now, why am I saluting a saxophonist on a show about jazz vocalists? Well, I would argue that no instrumentalist had as much of an influence on jazz singing as Charlie Parker did. His lightning ...

And I think that the saxophone within instrumental jazz is one of the most vocal instruments. So I think that was part of my attraction to it as well. For more fascinating conversations with the ...

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 ...

A Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Saxophone competition finalist ... Psalms and Proverbs is also a showcase for vocal-focused tracks featuring the talents of acclaimed world stars.