Arthur Blythe continues his fruitful association with producer/drummer Cecil Brooks III on Exhale, his latest for the Savant label, also teaming up with longtime partner and tuba player Bob Stewart, ...

The emotive power of Arthur Blythe's bracing alto saxophone tone and flighty phrasing set him apart from many of his generation. A poet, a muezzin, an angry activist, a lamenting lover: Blythe ...

NEW YORK — Arthur Blythe, whose brawny alto saxophone sound and independent spirit made him a standard-bearer of the New York jazz avant-garde in the late 1970s, died on Monday at a retirement home in ...

Arthur Blythe, one of the most daring and acclaimed jazz saxophonists of the 1970s and 1980s, died Monday at the age of 76. No cause of death has been given, but the Los Angeles native — who grew up ...

Reporting from San Diego — Arthur Blythe, one of the most daring and acclaimed jazz saxophonists of the 1970s and ’80s, has died. He was 76. No cause of death was given, but the Los Angeles native had ...

Arthur Blythe at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 1984 in The Hague, the Netherlands. Frans Schellekens/Redferns Mr. Blythe’s brawny alto saxophone sound and independent spirit made him a ...

On the irregular occasions when Arthur Blythe totes his alto sax out of nearby Palmdale for an L.A. epiphany, one wants to break out the frankincense. Blythe himself, though, has walked some rough ...

Arthur Blythe’s story may not make a movie, but it certainly works as jazz allegory. He came to New York from San Diego in the magical mid ’70s, and on his second night out sat in with Elvin Jones.

Arthur Blythe possesses one of the most distinctive tones in jazz. His alto sax attack is as large and legendary as the man, who’s world-renowned for gifts as a composer and soloist. His sound is even ...

Kevin Whitehead remembers alto saxophonist Arthur Blythe, pianist Geri Allen, guitarist John Abercrombie and singer Jon Hendricks. Each "helped shape jazz after the upheavals of the 1960s," he says.

Arthur Blythe, whose brawny alto saxophone sound and independent spirit made him a standard-bearer of the New York jazz avant-garde in the late 1970s, died Monday at a retirement home in Lancaster ...