“There are more people playing jazz music at a higher level than ever before in the history of jazz.” That’s Ian Buss’s answer when I ask him about choosing a career playing straight-ahead jazz music ...

Few sounds from an alto saxophone are more distinctive than the music of David Sanborn. Once heard, it's never mistaken for anyone else's music. Sanborn's playing is lyrical and sweet but meaty enough ...

We all know that 3D printers are great for churning out plastic trinkets and tiny sculptures of questionable artistic worth, but what makes the technology truly exciting is when users push the its ...

An operating theater isn't somewhere you'd normally expect to see someone belt out a saxophone solo, and even if you did, you wouldn't peg the player to be the patient lying on the table with their ...

Balkan Beat Box, a trio formed by Gogol Bordello’s Ori Kaplan and Firewater’s Tamir Muskat, has been doing strange things with Mediterranean styles and electronic sounds for over a decade. A band with ...

3D-printing is finally on the cusp of becoming an affordable technology for widespread use. As a result, crafty minds are already throwing just about anything you can think of through the 3D-printing ...

When tenor saxophonist John Coltrane recorded his composition "Giant Steps" in 1959, he created something that changed the way musicians thought about improvisation and harmony. Decades earlier, the ...