If its title didn’t already tip you off, “Tenor Time” — out on jazz label AFAR Music this Friday — declares what it’s all about from the very first track. An uptempo rhythm section, flavored with sly ...

When jazz fans talk about the Texas Tenor saxophone sound, they're talking about a sound which is very robust, sometimes raw, and which mixes the musical vocabularies of swing, bebop, blues and R&B.

If the trumpet stands as a symbol of New Orleans jazz — thanks partly to the larger-than-life persona of Louis Armstrong — there’s little doubt as to which instrument signifies Chicago jazz to ...

Sam Rivers’s new trio is not just a trio. The avant-garde tenor legend, now in his late 70s, unites with the rhythm section from his Rivbea All-Star Orchestra — bassist Doug Mathews and drummer ...

When you put a baritone mouthpiece on a tenor saxophone and play the thing loud with a bluesy sound it’s known as the Texas tenor style. Lots of great musicians, including Lester Young, Coleman ...

If any jazz performance from the 1980s could be thought of as a landmark statement, Joe Henderson's live State of the Tenor sessions would surely float to the top of the list. Recorded at the Village ...