John Gunther teaches our jazz saxophone majors, including BM, MM and DMA students. At all levels, Gunther works with his students to develop and maintain a solid foundation in the physical aspects of ...

12:07 p.m. May 14, 2024: An earlier version of this story said “Night Music,” also known as “Sunday Night Live,” was broadcast from 1998 to 1990. It ran from 1988 to 1990. David Sanborn, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saxophone player Sarah Hanahan will perform with her quartet at SUNY Schenectady on Oct. 3 as part of the A Place For Jazz fall ...

There comes a time in every great artist’s life when all the lessons they’ve learned go out the window and everything starts flowing on raw emotion. For Wayne Shorter, one such moment occurred during ...

This article first appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. In May 2022, Rio Americano High School in Sacramento, CA, was a finalist in Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington competition, and ...

Wayne Shorter, the pioneering saxophonist whose forward momentum helped chart the course of jazz, died in Los Angeles this morning (March 2), The New York Times reports, citing the musician’s ...

In New York, my biggest influence has been Chris Byars. I've had the chance to study and work with him, and he's taught me a lot about arranging, composition, and how to think about writing for a band ...

Lou Donaldson, an alto saxophonist with a supple, earthy style who was a key figure in the development of three styles of jazz from the 1940s to the 1960s and sustained a career for almost seven ...

The Grammy-winning saxophonist performed with John Coltrane in the 1960s before pioneering the spiritual jazz style Julia Moore is a TV Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...