Reed's Bass Drum is a Brooklyn based jazz collective focused on composing music as dialogue for baritone saxophone, bass and drums. “I originally organized the trio as a workshop for compositions that ...

Melissa Aldana, who became the first female instrumentalist and first South American musician to win the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition last fall, is not the average ...

There is something Baroque about jazz ensembles lacking a piano or guitar as a harmony instrument . Their absence frees previously occupied sonic space for other uses. The format also sets up a more ...

Some guys have all the luck, or so it seems when confronting the extraordinary career of multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Joshua Redman. Ever since he burst onto the jazz scene with a win at the ...

It was an amazing sight Tuesday at the Jazz Bakery -- a trio of brawny baritone saxophonists spread across the stage with the rip-snorting, foot-stomping vitality of a line of rhinos ready to charge ...

Next Wednesday Bad Plus drummer Dave King brings his superb quintet the Dave King Trucking Company to town for a show at Constellation. The lineup includes the mercurial New York reedist Chris Speed, ...

Happy birthday to the memory of Clifford Brown. --The Jazz Internet In Pittsburgh: I recently received an e-mail from reader Greg Runco, a video producer and jazz fan in Pittsburgh, Penn. Runco, 24, ...

Melissa Aldana, who became the first female instrumentalist and first South American musician to win the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition last fall, is not the average ...