It was an amazing sight Tuesday at the Jazz Bakery -- a trio of brawny baritone saxophonists spread across the stage with the rip-snorting, foot-stomping vitality of a line of rhinos ready to charge ...
In 1976, when the World Saxophone Quartet played its first concert, it introduced a new sound to jazz. No bass. No drums. No piano. Just four saxophones: the late Julius Hemphill playing alto, with ...
For more than four decades, Hamiet Bluiett found a way to combine the avant-garde with traditional jazz. Along the way, he redefined the role of the baritone saxophone, and co-founded one of the most ...
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 ...
She was celebrated for both her playing and her love of the jazz community. “My life in music,” she said recently, “is the smartest thing I’ve done.” By Giovanni Russonello Claire Daly, who was ...
Jack Nimitz, a jazz baritone saxophonist who played in the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton big bands and in the group “Supersax,” died Wednesday of complications from emphysema at his home in Studio City ...