This is the Courvoisier/Halvorson duo’s third collaboration on record, and as with the Jon Irabagon release discussed below ...

Though he powered classics by Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Chuck Berry, innovative drummer Fred Below is fading into ...

The jazz drummer and composer joins forces with vocalist Christie Dashiell to recast Max Roach’s influential 1960 suite, ...

Coleman Hawkins single-handedly brought the saxophone to the prominence in jazz that the instrument enjoys. Before he hit the scene, jazz groups had little use for the instrument. One player (forgot ...

“the great unflagging sovereign of the tenor saxophone.” Growing up in 1940s Harlem, Sonny Rollins idolized swing-era heavyweights like Coleman Hawkins and jump-blues saxophonists like Louis Jorda ...

Don Byas, a tenor saxophonist, who was regarded with great respect in ... Others of his cohort, like Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young or Ben Webster, are hardly forgotten. They have many followers. Among ...

His first instrument was the alto saxophone, but he switched to tenor ... an old-school romanticism derived from players like Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, and Paul Gonsalves, and “an ...

Coleman Hawkins’ saxophone joins with Kenny Burrell’s guitar on Hawkins’ “When Day Is Done,” and Burrell’s guitar pairs with Flanagan’s piano on Burrell’s “No More.” And Yusef Lateef brings his ...

Too often we think of the post-war tenor saxophone revolution as being solely in the hands of the tough Coleman Hawkins and laid back Lester Young. There actually was a third revolutionary in the ...