Jane Ira Bloom, winner of the 65th Annual Downbeat Critics Poll Winners (2017) award in the soprano saxophone category, took as her inspiration for this recording, the writings of nineteenth century ...

HALIFAX – Nicholas Dourado fiddles around with his tenor saxophone, improvising a tune. The 25-year-old has been playing the instrument for 10 years and is considering whether he should pursue it as a ...

music If it ain't possessin' something sweet? Nah, it ain't the melody and it ain't the music, There's something else that makes this tune complete, Yes, it don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Jazz great Benny Carter hardly ever looked back. He enjoyed whatever he was doing at the moment _ composing or arranging, improvising on the alto sax or trumpet, leading a band or ...

Soprano saxophonist/composer Jane Ira Bloom follows up her trio album Early Americans (Outline Records, 2016) with a concept album for quartet. In fact several of these tunes appeared in more open ...