Piano and saxophone duets are jazz distilled to its bare essentials: one linear melodic voice interacting with a chordal and rhythmic partner, also capable of leading the line. What these two European ...

Whittled down to twin instrumental poles, there can be a temptation to fill the yawning gaps between. However the best duets are those which take the less traveled path, taut without undue rhetoric, ...

Alto saxophone phenom Sarah Hanahan hits SUNY Schenectady for A Place for Jazz series on Friday, Oct. 3, delivering hard-bop ...

While I was playing “Careless Whisper” on piano, a guy with a saxophone joined in — and what followed was an unexpected but amazing live duet. The smooth sax, the nostalgic melody, and the spontaneous ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When semi-free-jazz London drum-and-sax duo Binker and Moses won Best Jazz Act at the Mobo awards last year, ...

Street musicians often can be a nuisance to New York City subway riders. But these two saxophonists put on a welcome show that passengers would not soon forget. Determined not to just let one musician ...

David Johnke leads the Flathead High School Symphonic Band in a piece called “Lux Aurumque” (‘Light and Gold”) by Eric Whitacre in the District 1 Music Festival on April 5 at Glacier High School.

Student musicians from the region recently participated in the Western State Solo and Ensemble Festival in Missoula. The festival held May 5-6 featured students who received superior ratings at the ...

Street musicians often can be a nuisance to New York City subway riders. But these two saxophonists put on a welcome show that passengers would not soon forget. Determined not to just let one musician ...