The Harlem-born tenor saxophonist helped define bebop, shaped generations of music and remained one of jazz’s most ...

Frank Morgan, a jazz saxophonist whose promising career was derailed by drug problems in the 1950s but whose triumphant comeback 30 years later led to an unexpected taste of midlife stardom, died ...

Disc 1: One Bass Hit, Oop Bop Sh Bam, That's Earl Brother, Be Bop In Pastel, Fool's Fancy, Bombay, Ray's Idea, Serenade To A Square, Good Kick, Seven Up, Blues In Bebop, Epistrophy, 52nd Street Theme, ...

This recent four-disc set covers the period 1946-1952, during which Sonny Stitt made the transition from promising young bebopper to jazz master. It is typical of the British Proper boxes; it's ...

Teddy Edwards, the bebop-era tenor saxophonist considered one of the crown jewels of Los Angeles’ Central Avenue jazz scene of the 1940s, died Sunday in Los Angeles after a long bout with prostate ...

From Harlem prodigy to ‘Saxophone Colossus,' inside the fearless life, radical experimentation, and lasting influence of ...

2003-04-24 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- Teddy Edwards, the bop-era tenor saxophonist considered one of the crown jewels of Los Angeles' jazz scene of the 1940s, died Sunday after a long bout with ...

Bird helped usher in bebop and transformed the alto saxophone into an instrument of startling possibility. Here’s an 11-song ...

Rollins, one of the greatest saxophonists of all time, played with everyone from Miles Davis to The Rolling Stones.

The winter season at the Jazz Showcase got off to an encouraging start Thursday evening, with one of Chicago’s more magisterial tenor saxophonists reminding listeners of the plush beauty of his work.

Tenor saxophonist Kermit Scott, a first-generation bebopper who worked with Billie Holiday and Thelonious Monk and was a mentor to many Bay Area jazz musicians, died in Houston on Feb. 2 of prostate ...

His death marks the physical and "biographical" end of an era that began with the founding of bebop in New York during the ...