He released his first solo soprano album, Monk Abstractions, in 2007 and followed with the acclaimed Blue Soliloquy in 2010. In 2011, the Jazz Journalists Association named Newsome as one of its ...

Sam Newsome's Blue Soliloquy is available at CD Baby. Soprano saxophone can be an unforgiving instrument. It's hard to play in tune, and many players get a pinched or nasal tone like it has a bad cold ...

Christine Jensen: conductor, soprano saxophone (solo on 6); Donny Kennedy: alto saxophone (solo on 1), soprano saxophone, flute; Erik Hove: alto saxophone (solo on 5), flute; Joel Miller: tenor ...

Fresh Air jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews two reissues featuring the late soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy — a live recording of a 1963 quartet that only played Thelonious Monk tunes, and later ...

Jazz solos, with chord symbols. Introd. by Jamey Aebersold. "The solos are in B♭ key, transposed to sound in unison with the original solos in E♭ key"--Page iv. "Scale syllabus": p. [3] of cover.

Chris Barber's Jazz And Blues Band has seen many changes in personnel over its 57 years of existence, and Ian Wheeler gave more years of service than most. He played clarinet, alto and soprano ...