Young Anders Malta, a student in 2016, heard the visiting Ernie Wilkins Almost Big Band and was impressed. The Danish ...
Golson was one of the few surviving jazz masters of the 1950s, a golden age during which the innovations of the 1940s, known ...
Denilson Ochieng (tenor saxophone) and Peter Kingori (soprano saxophone).The group will host the first Hornsphere Live ...
Bloc” stands for “Being Legendary Off Creativity,” and the Artist Bloc, “where creative minds meet,” is where the artists of ...
Gai Terrell/Redferns, via Getty Images Mr. Golson formed his best-known group ... They shared the bill with the radically innovative alto saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, who was also ...
Inspired by his late father, the Puerto Rican musician explores his Dominican roots on an album the New York Times selected as one of the best of 2023.
The job with Ellington lasted until Duke's death 47 years later. Shortly after joining Ellington, Carney was persuaded to play alto saxophone but soon gravitated to the baritone, an instrument he ...
By Ainsley Green, Staff Writer On Friday, Sept. 13, the 16th Annual Concerto Competition took place in Paul Recital Hall at 7 ...
The Salida High School/Middle School marching band, in its third year, is bigger than ever before. Almost everyone who plays ...
From a sublime wine country crooner to some ghostly fun in Pleasanton, there is a lot to see and do in the Bay Area this week ...
Tenor saxophonist and composer Benny Golson died on Sept. 21 at his home in Manhattan. He was 95. Some of his compositions became jazz standards during his seven-decade career that also included ...