People are often surprised to learn Vanessa Collier describes herself as shy and introverted. Those labels don’t skew with the vibrant and charismatic blues, soul and funk singer and saxophone player ...

“Sax Blues & BBQ,” a jazz and blues festival, will return to Daniel Vineyards at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 1, featuring traditional blues, jazz and gospel music for the public to enjoy. The festival is ...

He was the greatest bluesman Boston ever produced, although if you asked someone at a local rock club today who he was, you’d get a blank stare. He was also the most influential jazzman ever to come ...

Political conscience occupies a special place in the quintessence of modern jazz, fueling, in its most heated moments, the stuff of blunt insurrection. It remains to be seen whether Political Blues, ...

The Elgin Symphony Orchestra next month will be presenting its first jazz concert, which will feature a musician who played with the Blues Brothers and other big acts. The concert will feature Mark ...

Nashville saxophonist Dennis Taylor has been studying and playing the saxophone more than 25 years, 18 of them as a prolific session contributor and soloist. He has played on four Grammy-nominated ...

When Chicago blues musician Eddie Shaw played his saxophone, the room seemed to quake. His immense, raspy, growling sound cut through the instrumentals surrounding him. His ornate solos packed vast ...

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, designated by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History as a time to celebrate the legacy of jazz. April was designated Jazz Appreciation Month in part ...

As an elder statesmen of jazz, Phil Woods feels more comfortable on a stage than in front of a classroom. That doesn't mean he's got nothing to teach. At 73, the saxophonist still has the skills young ...

Like our neighbors over at Eating Our Words, Rocks Off would like to tell you about some places that didn’t quite make the cut in our few most recent Best of Houston issues (categories change every ...