James Carter, a longtime saxophone innovator and collaborator with Wynton Marsalis, will be at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston on September 21. He talked with GBH Music's Jazz on 89.7 hosts Al Davis and ...

He wrote prolifically about the music and played an important role in documenting its history, especially in his many years ...

SEQUIM — Improvisation and teamwork are important in both athletics and in jazz, said Sequim’s Andy Geiger, who retired from ...

It sustained him his whole life,” said Loren Schoenberg, a tenor saxophonist and senior scholar of the National ... Young, Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins and Oran “Hot Lips” Page, a trumpeter and ...

One of the founding fathers of modern jazz bass was this Oklahoma musician, who gained notoriety after recording with tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, in 1943, which led to him working with Earl ...

The saxophonist brought the band on the road and recorded three of Silver's compositions. In 1951, Silver moved to New York City where he accompanied saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and ...

He arrived in New York playing piano with Mel Lewis and Tex Benecke, staying there to perform the music of Eddie Sauter with Ray McKinley, free lancing with musicians such as Coleman Hawkins ... when ...