When Seattle smooth-jazz station KWJZ vanished into the ether last winter, its wounded fans rained down protests, including nearly 100 emails, comments and phone calls to The Seattle Times. Well, ...

While hauling his luggage through airport terminals, Boney James occasionally hears a calming jazz saxophone coming from the sound system. His jazz saxophone. James, a veteran of modern smooth jazz, ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Apaulo Music Productions presents a Smooth Jazz Concert featuring the Sax Pack (Jeff Kashiwa, Steve Cole and Jackiem Joyner) on Saturday, August 6, 2016 at The Hawaii ...

Honolulu (KHON2) – The Hawaii Saxophone Foundation announces the Super Saxophone Series, which is aimed at celebrating jazz and fostering musical education. This smooth jazz concert series invites ...

David Sanborn is often categorized — or dismissed — as a “smooth jazz” saxophonist. He has certainly played plenty of what’s considered smooth jazz, the melodic, instrumental hybrid of modern jazz, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Sax man Dave Koz typically doesn’t overanalyze things, not really. He just goes with his gut. That being said, he does “get” why the instrument he’ll bring to Playhouse Square’s ...

When jazz saxophonist Dave Koz’s “dream” car was stolen in 1997 after he stopped for five minutes to pick up a sandwich at a restaurant in the San Fernando Valley, it was perhaps the lowest point of ...

Kenny G wants you to know that he doesn’t like the term “smooth jazz.” “For me,” the saxophonist says in his new memoir, “Life in the Key of G,” “it evokes a feeling of something that’s too light, too ...

After a year-long gig with Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas, performing at the Bellagio Hotel, smooth jazz saxophone player Paul Lamoureux takes to the stage at Junction Jazz this Saturday night, May 22.

Charles McPherson meets me at the door of the home he shares with his wife and daughter in Talmadge Park and he invites me in. He’s wearing black slacks and a purple pullover and stocking feet. “We ...

Fine print: 9 p.m. Friday (platinum seating and buffet at 7, gold seating at 8:30), Frost Bank Plaza Club, 100 W. Houston St., $65 and $40 (plus service charges) through cooljazzforever.com or at ...