The Harlem-born tenor saxophonist helped define bebop, shaped generations of music and remained one of jazz’s most ...

From Harlem prodigy to ‘Saxophone Colossus,' inside the fearless life, radical experimentation, and lasting influence of ...

Disc 1: One Bass Hit, Oop Bop Sh Bam, That's Earl Brother, Be Bop In Pastel, Fool's Fancy, Bombay, Ray's Idea, Serenade To A Square, Good Kick, Seven Up, Blues In Bebop, Epistrophy, 52nd Street Theme, ...

Frank Morgan, a jazz saxophonist whose promising career was derailed by drug problems in the 1950s but whose triumphant comeback 30 years later led to an unexpected taste of midlife stardom, died ...

One of jazz’s most towering voices has gone silent.Sonny Rollins, the tenor saxophonist known as the "Saxophone Colossus," ...

This recent four-disc set covers the period 1946-1952, during which Sonny Stitt made the transition from promising young bebopper to jazz master. It is typical of the British Proper boxes; it's ...

2003-04-24 04:00:00 PDT Los Angeles-- Teddy Edwards, the bop-era tenor saxophonist considered one of the crown jewels of Los Angeles' jazz scene of the 1940s, died Sunday after a long bout with ...

Teddy Edwards, the bebop-era tenor saxophonist considered one of the crown jewels of Los Angeles’ Central Avenue jazz scene of the 1940s, died Sunday in Los Angeles after a long bout with prostate ...

Tenor saxophonist Kermit Scott, a first-generation bebopper who worked with Billie Holiday and Thelonious Monk and was a mentor to many Bay Area jazz musicians, died in Houston on Feb. 2 of prostate ...

One of the last stars of the bebop generation, Rollins was a genius of melodic invention and improvisation, working with Davis, Monk, Coltrane and others ...