Almost no other instrument seems so synonymous with jazz as the sax. Listen to some classic alto playing from Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt and more greats.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. New York: Ornette Coleman, a self-taught alto saxophone player who polarised the jazz world with his unconventional "free jazz" before ...

On this soupy, mid-October day, Rosehill Cemetery is eerily quiet, even for a graveyard. But inside May Chapel — the cozy, neo-Gothic chapel at its heart — Mars Williams is loud. One of Chicago’s most ...

According to The Times, citing a family representative, Coleman died of cardiac arrest at Beth Israel Hospital. Coleman, born March 9, 1930, attended I. M. Terrell High School, where, briefly, the ...

Though largely self-taught, Coleman would create his own “harmolodic” concept of music, which also became a life philosophy. The music derived from a uniquely free interaction between the musicians, ...

Unlike the structured precision of a piano-driven quartet, saxophone-guitar albums thrive on spontaneity. Imagine a smoky jazz club where the deep, soulful wail of a saxophone weaves effortlessly with ...

For some, Ken Burns’ 2001 PBS series Jazz was a definitive, open-and-shut take on its subject, as comprehensive a portrait of the genre as one could hope for. For others, the series was a major slight ...