KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – Jason Thompson has been playing the saxophone since he was 11 years old. Now, a matured jazz musician and saxophonist, his pride and joy is a 1914 bass saxophone that he has ...

The sound that begins Colin Stetson's newest album is like a massive oil tanker listing into jagged rock, tearing away at the hull. In fact, it's merely Stetson's chosen instrument, the bass saxophone ...

The post All That Jazz: Watch Nandi Bushell Play Guitar, Bass, Drums and Saxophone on John Coltrane Cover appeared first on Consequence. As she approaches her 12th birthday, Nandi Bushell continues to ...

Colin Stetson plays bass saxophone, an instrument that would look big on Yao Ming. On Stetson’s second solo effort, New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges, he draws on the NYC downtown jazz scene of the ...

One of today’s most wide-ranging instrumentalists, Scott Robinson has been heard on tenor sax with Buck Clayton’s band, on trumpet with Lionel Hampton’s quintet, on alto clarinet with Paquito D’Rivera ...

After 12 albums as a leader, multi-instrumentalist and composer Dr. Brian Landrus has become an internationally recognized low woodwind artist. Landrus specializes on the low woodwind family, ...

When considering the possibilities for a musical duet, the interaction between saxophone and acoustic bass doesn’t leap to the forefront of the imagination. That’s one of many reasons why “Weights and ...

Colin Stetson is a frequent collaborator with Arcade Fire and Bon Iver. But in his solo material, he can make his instrument sound like an entire band. Stetson performs on a massive bass saxophone.

Recently I received two new cd’s by artists playing brass and reed instruments: Bria Skonberg is a trumpet player, while Hailey Niswanger is a sax player. You don’t get this stuff everyday; usually ...