An alto saxophone tone as dry and bright as a martini with the sun shining through it. I have been listening to this disc over and over and over. My knowledge of Desmond is admitted limited. Sure he ...

Paul Desmond, an alto saxophonist, once said he tried to sound like a dry martini. He succeeded in that. Many people know jazz pianist Dave Brubeck‘s work, especially the famous 1959 Columbia session, ...

Popular music is usually a young person's game. Older artists, in any genre, often get pushed to the periphery to make way for the next big thing that can sell in numbers. But the CTI label was ...

DURHAM — Guitarist David Newsam serves up jazz standards at 3 p.m. Sunday in Bratton Recital Hall of the Paul Creative Arts Center in a music faculty concert at the University of New Hampshire. He ...