KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Among the art installations headed for the new terminal under construction at the Kansas City International Airport is a tribute to the city’s jazz history — and one ...

Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded ... the most seminal jazz groups: Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers ...

Often perceived as a “smooth jazz” artist, Sanborn loathed that term. “I sometimes get looped in with jazz musicians because I play sax and improvise,” Sanborn told The Times in 1996.

Meanwhile, Sidney Bechet’s virtuosic clarinet and soprano saxophone playing expanded the possibilities of jazz improvisation. These artists, among others, not only defined the sound of the 1920s ...