Dimming one’s light in the face of haters is not something Lidia Rodriguez knows how to do. Whenever she gets comments from guys about her size or gender, the baritone player is quick to clap back ...

WEST NEWBURY — Pentucket Regional High School junior Zack Murphy is the only baritone saxophone player in the U.S. to be accepted into the All-National Honor Ensembles’ Jazz Ensemble. “He competed ...

Call it stereotyping, but the truth is occasionally we’ll see a pairing of musician and instrument we don’t expect. We’d be surprised, for example, to find a burly, hulking guy playing a piccolo. We’d ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Lauren Sevian is playing a big concert Feb. 21 with the Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra. The concert is the Music of Mingus and Sevian plays in the Mingus Dynasty Big Band ...

Jack Nimitz played clarinet and alto saxophone before discovering the baritone sax and falling in love with the instrument's voice. “It sounded so warm and nice and dark and rich," he said. Nimitz ...

As he plays his baritone saxophone in the office of Van Buren High School Band director Ron Smith, 17-year-old Manuel Valente’s brow is furrowed in concentration. Playing the baritone - often called a ...

Leo Parker was the proud owner of a big, beefy baritone sax tone and a fluent technique that struck a great match between the gritty, down-home feeling of R&B and the advanced harmonies of bebop. At ...

Before I lugged my ass to the Chicago Reader in 1993, I spent quite a few years at Jazz Record Mart, and the other day one of my former JRM coworkers, Steve Dawson of Dolly Varden, posted on Facebook ...

Former Cincinnati Bearcats football standout Jason Kelce - yes, the same Jason Kelce who gave a legendary speech at the Philadelphia Eagles' Super Bowl celebration - will play the baritone saxophone ...

Jack Nimitz, a jazz baritone saxophonist who played in the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton big bands and in the group “Supersax,” died Wednesday of complications from emphysema at his home in Studio City ...