Sher Music Co. has recently released a landmark book by New York jazz heavyweight, Tim Armacost entitled The Jazz Saxophone Book. This book was written for all students of jazz, from relative ...

It's a primal scene in the personal myth of many a saxophonist: that first glimpse of the golden horn that embodies a world of shining aspiration. "Sonny Rollins," according to his Web site, "first ...

Don Byas, a tenor saxophonist, who was regarded with great respect in his day, is, unfortunately, now not much more than a name. In part, it is because he has been gone for half a century. Yet that ...

THE WORLD IN THE EVENING (301 pp.)—Christopher Isherwood—Random House ($3.50). The World in the Evening starts with a racket at a drunken Hollywood party; the sound comes from the hero’s fists ...

Ornette Coleman began his run at the Belfast Festival without his lifelong collaborators, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins, but was joined instead by his son Denardo on drums and Charnett Moffett on ...