Dear listeners, It has become a joke among a few friends and colleagues that I am the newspaper’s jam band correspondent. I have written (and Popcasted!) about the Grateful Dead ...

Bates indulges in strings that stretch out in sleek harmonies over beds of bright guitar, saxophone ... Jobs certainly makes a compelling template: He’s drunk with power, reckless, tempestuous ...

Have you ever heard a Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone in the 1840s? It is a versatile woodwind instrument known for its smooth, expressive sound. Saxophonists are musicians who use the smooth ...

She might be the most stylishly-dressed person in the room, often clad in gold from head to toe to match her trusted saxophone. But the five time Grammy-nominated Lakecia Benjamin is certainly the ...

In the summer of 1969, as the Vietnam War raged, Jimi Hendrix stepped onto the Woodstock  stage and bent the US national ...

The festival, called The Arcades, is billed as “an undergraduate collage of music.” It began as a two-part course in UCSD’s ...

Andrew Farriss invited high school classmate Michael Hutchence to join his band Doctor Dolphin in Sydney, Australia in the mid-’70s. Over the next few years, Farriss’s brothers Jon and Tim ...

With the arrival Thelonious Sphere Monk, modern music— let alone modern culture—simply hasn’t been the same. Recognized as one of the most inventive pianists of any musical genre, Monk achieved a ...

Lucky for him, NYC is full of musicians playing at every turn. So, when this musical pup crossed paths with a saxophone player, it did not take long for it to turn into a duet. Sure, this Dalmatian is ...

Bringing together Australian chanteuse Ali McGregor with the Signum Saxophone Quartet may seem like an odd way to honour the 80th anniversary of a chamber music organisation founded by European ...