The saxophone has provided popular music with some of its most memorable riffs and solos. The instrument's appeal lies in its ...

Sam Butler has recently joined the Indy music scene as one of the hottest new trumpeters around town. It was therefore no surprise that the Jazz Kitchen selected Butler to ...

Now, with his arsenal of flutes and appropriately sensitive accompanists on harp, trombone, percussion and hip-hop poetry — ...

The fingers on Shabaka’s Brazilian bamboo flute are tapping. There’s another album to be coaxed from its mathematically ...

But in the world of comic books, the Worst Bot Ever is Ballpoint, a Decepticon whose alt-form is a literal ballpoint pen of normal size. If you thought G1 Megatron's transformation into a hand ...

When I was a kid, my dad and grandpa placated some hard-ass county inspector by piling massive dirt berms along our place in the Sax-Zim Bog. They sought to block the view of our family junkyard ...

Strib Voices publishes a mix of material from 11 contributing columnists, along with other commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• When I was a kid, my dad and grandpa ...

Irish veteran sax player and singer Paddy Cole has died aged 85. He celebrated his 85th birthday on 17 December. One of the leaders of Irish showbusiness for the last 70 years, he was just 15 when ...

The last surviving original member of the Band died on Tuesday. He was a master on keys and saxophones who could conjure a panoply of scenes and eras. By Jon Pareles Ever so self-effacingly ...

As Chooty B, Nick Bredal is well-traveled in the local scene where he lends tenor sax to some of the Bay area’s best bands. This weekend—after postponing this show in the wake of back-to-back ...