Anyone who has been to a Big Gigantic show can attest to its appeal. The Boulder live/electronic outfit – comprised of saxophonist/producer Dominic Lalli and drummer Jeremy Salken – is a rollicking… ...

NEW ORLEANS — Belgium gave the world the saxophone, and today, the European country gave New Orleans a really BIG saxophone. A delegation of Belgian leaders presented the city with this Tricentennial ...

ASPEN – When saxophonist Dominic Lalli got an invite to join the Colorado band the Motet, it was like a dream gig. The Motet, led by drummer Dave Watts, played an adventurous mix of jazz, funk and ...

Dedicating oneself to the baritone saxophone indicates a big personality, so it's surprising that few jazz stars have emerged on the instrument. Aside from Gerry Mulligan and Pepper Adams (from the ...

Clarence Clemons, the larger-than-life saxophone player for the E Street Band who was one of the key influences in Bruce Springsteen’s life and music through four decades, has died. He was 69. Clemons ...

From a small town in Italy to bright lights around the world, saxophonist Ada Rovatti boldly stepped into the big shoes of the late and legendary saxophonist Michael Brecker several years ago. She ...

Timothy McAllister is one of the classical saxophone wizards of our day, busy with his own PRISM saxophone quartet and lately becoming the man of the hour for a couple of big jazz-inspired works by ...

On this week’s Rhythm Planet program, we focus on the modern evolution of that most jazzy of instruments, the tenor sax. Years ago I saw an ad in Down Beat magazine for knit shirts of the Lacoste ...

For Roger Rosenberg, a veteran New York jazzman with a gift for making the big baritone sax sing and dance, finding direction in life wasn’t difficult. “I hear about kids going to college to try to ...

Walt Dunbar figured his saxophone-playing days were over when he moved from “Big Band Central” in New Jersey to Southwest Virginia, where bluegrass is king. As he and wife Judy were cleaning out for ...