It helps, of course, that the four-saxophone band features a who’s who bunch of Michigan musicians, with drummer Mark Jilbert, bassist Chris Carr, guitarist Kurt Ogrodzinski, keyboardist Carl ...

Portland's all-women sax quartet, the Quadraphonnes, shown here in a provided photo. The band will perform the music of the eccentric artist Moondog at the Alberta Rose Theater on Friday, March 7 ...

Steely Dan, “Doctor Wu” — There are so many great saxophone breaks on every Steely Dan record that it is a tough choice. This one is from jazz great Phil Woods and happens to be in one of my ...

The original Interstellar Space album was a set of four saxophone-drums duos played by John Coltrane and Rashied Ali, recorded in February 1967 but not released until September 1974.

At the university’s seat of Rexburg, Idaho, he created the sax quartet FOUR, who recorded their debut album With Friends Like These in 2006. Five other albums followed, of which FOUR + Six is the ...

But Four Brothers was more than just another arrangement: The emphasis on blended harmonies and Young-like saxes playing together would become the basis for West Coast jazz just a few years later.

The four saxophone players -- Kenneth R. Foerch on soprano, David A. Lewis on baritone, Anjan G. Shah on alto and David B. Stambler on tenor -- are all classically trained and just as likely to ...