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, ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — It’s one of the most thrilling musical scenes in a film packed with them: Aretha Franklin sings and struts around her tiny Maxwell Street diner, imploring her musician boyfriend to “Think” ...

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” ...

It should be a celebration for the senses at the 30th Erie Blues & Jazz Festival at Frontier Park from Friday through Sunday. An extensive variety of blues and jazz music acts, film screenings, dance ...

FAIRFIELD — Just in case you’ve been wondering whether the blues is alive and kicking, check out Fairfield Theatre Company’s StageOne on Aug. 16 when it presents a full night of blues-based music by ...

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 ...

The young American taps into generational memory with assorted guest vocalists and a rich, rewarding palette of styles and moods The first two albums from American alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins ...

As an elder statesmen of jazz, Phil Woods feels more comfortable on a stage than in front of a classroom. That doesn't mean he's got nothing to teach. At 73, the saxophonist still has the skills young ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...