It's a great weekend to fill with some smooth jazz. The Billboard charting duo Brass-N-Sax Experience, saxophonist Deon Yates and trumpeter Rob Zinn will have several performances this weekend you can ...

Daniel “Weenie” Farrow may be 83, but Friday’s Jazz Fest set with the Pres Hall Brass Band proved — yet again — that he and his trusty tenor sax can keep up with a band of guys half his age. With ...

Adolphe Sax made this alto saxophone in 1857, long after he had switched to brass. The sax is still a woodwind instrument, though. Photo courtesy National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota The ...

Calling all smooth jazz fans. Get out your dancing shoes, because on Saturday, Oct. 25, the New York-based Brass Queens take ...

There’s a move perfected by middle school orchestra members — mainly clarinet players, in my experience — that emerges directly after a musician makes a jarring mistake during a performance. The ...

Brass Over Bridges performs a free family concert on March 30 at the Palo Alto Art Center. The concert is presented in partnership with Music at Kohl Mansion. Courtesy Brass Over Bridges. Spring is in ...

Alto Reed, who played saxophone for multiplatinum Bob Seger‘s Silver Bullet Band for nearly half a century, died Wednesday of colon cancer. He was 72. Seger posted a note about his “lifelong friend ...