Piano and saxophone duets are jazz distilled to its bare essentials: one linear melodic voice interacting with a chordal and rhythmic partner, also capable of leading the line. What these two European ...

Freedom. Free-dom. What is it? And how do you get it? In music the word denotes something specific. At least in jazz. It means in part starting out a musical performance with the idea that what is ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When semi-free-jazz London drum-and-sax duo Binker and Moses won Best Jazz Act at the Mobo awards last year, ...

Fifty years ago, when drummer Rashied Ali entered the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, for his latest session with John Coltrane, he was surprised to find the rest of the saxophonist ...

The superlative saxophonist Lee Konitz, one of the last surviving greats rooted in the bebop era, the jazz golden age of the mid-1940s through the early 1950s, died in New York City of pneumonia ...