If its title didn’t already tip you off, “Tenor Time” — out on jazz label AFAR Music this Friday — declares what it’s all about from the very first track. An uptempo rhythm section, flavored with sly ...

Visit vailjazz.org for a full weekend schedule and to purchase tickets. Late-night jam session, Wing’s Place, First Chair Cafe, Vail Marriott 11:20 p.m. — Terell Stafford (trumpet), Adam Bravo (piano) ...

If the trumpet stands as a symbol of New Orleans jazz — thanks partly to the larger-than-life persona of Louis Armstrong — there’s little doubt as to which instrument signifies Chicago jazz to ...

There have been very few contestants on this season of The Voice that have completely shocked me this season — until now. Eighteen-year-old Jacob Rummell completely blew the judges — and me — away ...

When jazz fans talk about the Texas Tenor saxophone sound, they're talking about a sound which is very robust, sometimes raw, and which mixes the musical vocabularies of swing, bebop, blues and R&B.

When you put a baritone mouthpiece on a tenor saxophone and play the thing loud with a bluesy sound it’s known as the Texas tenor style. Lots of great musicians, including Lester Young, Coleman ...