CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Lauren Sevian is playing a big concert Feb. 21 with the Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra. The concert is the Music of Mingus and Sevian plays in the Mingus Dynasty Big Band ...
Jack Nimitz played clarinet and alto saxophone before discovering the baritone sax and falling in love with the instrument's voice. “It sounded so warm and nice and dark and rich," he said. Nimitz ...
Before I lugged my ass to the Chicago Reader in 1993, I spent quite a few years at Jazz Record Mart, and the other day one of my former JRM coworkers, Steve Dawson of Dolly Varden, posted on Facebook ...
WEST NEWBURY — Pentucket Regional High School junior Zack Murphy is the only baritone saxophone player in the U.S. to be accepted into the All-National Honor Ensembles’ Jazz Ensemble. “He competed ...
He is revered by many, if not most, baritone saxophone players as the “godfather” of the instrument. He could blow and hold notes on his saxophone like few other players then or since. He was a ...
Call it stereotyping, but the truth is occasionally we’ll see a pairing of musician and instrument we don’t expect. We’d be surprised, for example, to find a burly, hulking guy playing a piccolo. We’d ...
The burning heat and hard-driving swing of a jazz organ trio will fill Ann Arbor’s Blue Llama Jazz Club on Friday when baritone saxophonist Alex Harding’s Organ Nation plays an evening of standards ...
Young Lion of the Baritone Sax, B.J. Jansen, blows back into Cincinnati to showcase for the 2006 Mid Point Music Fest. B.J. Jansen, Philadelphia jazz baritone saxophone artist (and Cincinnati native ...