Grammy-winning saxophonist Joe Lovano is named the 2026 Detroit Jazz Festival Artist-in-Residence, bringing acclaimed musicians along for the ride.

Invented in the early 1840s, the saxophone was a relative latecomer to music—and to jazz. But starting in the mid-1920s, with the rise of the big bands, the instrument slowly but steadily evolved from ...

Called “one of the most esteemed and singular-voiced alto saxophonists in jazz” by Downbeat Magazine, Miguel Zenón will make ...

Coleman Hawkins, known as "The Hawk" or "Bean," basically invented tenor sax as we know it, all the way down to Bill Clinton playing his way to office. After making many recordings with various groups ...

Sarah Hanahan was named the top rising alto sax star in Downbeat magazine's 2025 critics' poll. Saxophonist Sarah Hanahan will perform at SUNY Schenectady on Friday, Oct. 3. Saxophonist Sarah Hanahan, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, ...

A Redding doctor wants people to seek therapy — smooth jazz therapy — when his band plays its annual concert later this month at Old City Hall in Redding. Family doctor David Short is the front man ...

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The couple danced beneath the sax man’s front window. At first, Joe Lawton, 85, didn’t know the couple was there. He was merely practicing in his living room, confined to his home by the lockdown ...