They don’t call Carla Brownlee “Hurricane” for nothing. On a recent Tuesday at Wilbur’s Bar and Grill, the sax player blows into her horn with enough energy to rock the audience. True to her nickname, ...

Political conscience occupies a special place in the quintessence of modern jazz, fueling, in its most heated moments, the stuff of blunt insurrection. It remains to be seen whether Political Blues, ...

People are often surprised to learn Vanessa Collier describes herself as shy and introverted. Those labels don’t skew with the vibrant and charismatic blues, soul and funk singer and saxophone player ...

Over the years, Boston-based saxophonist Gordon Beadle has backed up some of the top rock, blues and R&B artists in the business — people such as Jay McShann, Jimmy Witherspoon, Luther “Guitar Junior” ...

When Chicago blues musician Eddie Shaw played his saxophone, the room seemed to quake. His immense, raspy, growling sound cut through the instrumentals surrounding him. His ornate solos packed vast ...

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, designated by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History as a time to celebrate the legacy of jazz. April was designated Jazz Appreciation Month in part ...

A rising blues singer and saxophonist whose three albums in five years has gotten her nominated for five Blues Music Awards, will headline downtown Allentown’s 12th annual Blues, Brews and Barbecue ...

Cheesy, cool, noisy, sweet – the sax is a versatile beast that has made many great songs even better The saxophone has earned its place in just about every modern music genre. Listen to the earliest ...

This file photo taken on January 17, 2018 shows a Saxophone just being assembled at the Selmer Saxophone factory in Mantes-la-Ville, outside Paris. (Photo by ALAIN JOCARD / AFP) After the financial ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Long recognized as an avant-garde fixture with creativity up the wazoo, the World Saxophone Quartet has a language all its own. Its four-part harmony flows worlds apart from the norm while its ...