The Solo Saxophone Concerts might not be the easiest place to start with his music, but if you dig the Art Ensemble then you should jump in without hesitation. Mitchell maps out new constellations of ...

The SNL musical director and longtime session player shares the stories behind ten of his most cherished riffs.

The three E flat concertos receive bold, characterful readings, and one hopes that Mozart would have giggled at Frank-Gemmill ...

No breaks, no talking—just tight harmonies, rousing saxophone solos, some stupidly audacious ... as he turned away from country music to release a hard-rock record. After that, he a put out ...

From his 1978 debut to the record he deemed his best since Dark Side of the Moon, we present a complete guide to the Pink ...

A piece of music Hall commissioned, Debussy’s “Rapsodie for alto ... and the saxophone was not an integral part of jazz as it ...

Ferry’s first solo effort after Roxy Music’s Avalon swan song found him ... Richard White’s alto sax playing is appropriately subdued, as are the funky guitar stylings of a host of six ...

Quincy Jones, the multi-talented music titan whose vast legacy ranged from producing Michael Jackson’s historic “Thriller” ...

Since then he has headed up promotions at London’s Jazz Café, and worked as manager and music booker at the Vortex Jazz ... from classical solo engagements on soprano saxophone with the Oxford Pro ...