Donald Lehr was explaining why the Rova Saxophone Quartet is and is not a jazz group: “In a way, it’s a composed concept. A lot of free improvisation just sets up a concept for solos, whereas the ...

When they were looking for a short and sweet name for their saxophone quartet in fall 2016, the men of ~Nois decided to shorten the word “Illinois” to solidify their status as a Chicago-based group.

Near the end of an introductory improvisation on an album curiously titled The Brain of the Dog in Section, Peter Brotzmann and Fred Lonberg-Holm bring their meshing of saxophone and cello to a solemn ...

When saxophonists Jon Raskin, Larry Ochs, Andrew Voigt and Bruce Ackley came together in 1977, put the initials of their surnames into an acronym and formed Rova Saxophone Quartet, they were among a ...

Baltimore Jazz Education Project brings George Garzone to Baltimore for free clinics and two performances in November.

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A remarkable thing about renowned jazz saxophonist Gary Thomas, founding faculty member and chair of the Jazz Studies Department at the Peabody Institute: he did not touch a saxophone until he was in ...