Lou Donaldson, who has died aged 98, was an alto saxophonist whose fluid, soulful style helped to shape the face of modern ...

The veteran keyboardist and composer credits Keith Emerson of prog-rock pioneers Emerson, Lake & Palmer as a major ...

If Mardi Gras is New Orleans’ bread and butter, Christmas is the dessert. Come December, hotel lobbies are illuminated, palm ...

He was exposed to gospel music in church and eventually ... Within two weeks, he had learned the rudiments of the alto saxophone and soon joined a Navy jazz band that included trumpeters Clark ...

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In 1955 he rejoined B.B.’s band, but this time on tenor sax, which would become his primary horn ... erede di una tradizione popolare che dal gospel arriva ad un soul-jazz articolato, ricco di ...

Also like many of his fellow saxophonists, VanHemert eventually moved away from the smaller horn to devote his full energies to the tenor sax, an instrument emblematic of the jazz heritage ... soul ...

1aChord will also be performing at the holiday concert. The trio — Tavis Cunningham, Christoff Hairston, and Julian Kennedy — ...

Nothing gets the holiday season off to a better start that Dave Koz & Friends Christmas Tour. The 27th anniversary edition of ...

While it’s clear that both the trumpet and saxophone have been integral ... and was instrumental in the birth of the gospel-blues-infused soul-jazz style (he wrote one of the genre’s key ...

After being drafted into the US Navy in 1945, he switched to the alto sax ... gospel and R&B elements into his sound, pioneering a new, more commercially friendly style called soul jazz.

1963: Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie's orchestra, “Honeysuckle Rose” Those looking to kickstart their Jones listening journey at the very beginning of his career could do so with “Liza,” from his ...