Billy Harper as he appears on the cover of the 1990 album Destiny Is Yours Credit: Steve Krakow for Chicago Reader Saxophonist Billy Harper has a quote from jazz radio broadcaster Miles Willis ...

Years before James Brandon Lewis gained recognition as one of jazz’s most potent and expressive tenor saxophonists there was a moment he thought he’d found his calling in church. After earning a ...

The tenor sax is a jazz instrument. The paradigmatic jazz instrument, if I may thrown in a $50 word. How many tenor sax sonatas or concertos can you think of that feature the tenor as a solo, or even ...

When tenor saxophonist John Coltrane recorded his composition "Giant Steps" in 1959, he created something that changed the way musicians thought about improvisation and harmony. Decades earlier, the ...

Tenor saxophonist and educator Javon Jackson, who grew up in Denver, currently chairs the Hartt School’s Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz Studies at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. That ...

The Quadraphonnes, Portland’s all-women sax quartet, will perform the music of the eccentric artist Moondog at the Alberta Rose Theater on March 7. Moondog was a blind street musician in New York City ...