This label’s 86-year run has been one of the most storied in jazz — and it’s still going. Hear tracks by Wayne Shorter, Sonny ...

Coleman began to teach himself to play the alto saxophone in 1950, upon being profoundly affected by the music of Charlie Parker. So prodigious was his talent that George was soon performing locally ...

A member of the trailblazing Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet ... With its lissom Charlie Parker-influenced inflections, McLean’s sinuous alto saxophone style caught the ear of Miles Davis ...

The WSWS recently spoke to master musician Charles McPherson about the relationship between music, art and society.

The sound of the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet on their studio ... and Miles Davis for Prestige. At the time, Parker was under contract to Norman Granz's Norgran label, so he recorded on tenor ...

In the 1950s, McLean was influenced by Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, threading traditional bebop lines on his alto saxophone and recording ... Dizzy Gillespie, and Max Roach played all the ...

For alto saxophone they chose Lee Konitz ... while Miles knew drummer Max Roach from Parker’s quintet. In September 1948, the nonet opened for Count Basie at the Royal Roost on New York ...

They run through five jazz standards, including Charlie Parker’s “Scrapple From The Apple” and Dizzy Gillespie’s “A Night In Tunisia.” Gordon’s tenor saxophone, big and majestic but ...

He is dedicated to the great tradition of jazz drumming as conceived by men like Max Roach ... a renowned trombone and saxophone player, exposed him at the age of 12, to the music of Count Basie, John ...

Archie Shepp, who played tenor saxophone on alternate takes of “Acknowledgement ... effect in the seminal Verve album of 1955, Charlie Parker With Strings. One modern-day exponent of blending ...

Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Elsie Parker is a master at creating beautiful, enchanting sounds. It began in fifth grade ...