Joe Henderson

A melodically gifted bassist, Chris Brubeck, a prince in the Brubeck family dynasty, is also a fervent bass trombonist who can evoke dark, mysterious melancholy or swing with brassy, barn-burning heat and fury. What makes this Connecticut Yankee an all-...

Exactly 50 years ago, an aspiring jazz pianist from Milwaukee got a paying gig in Chicago—and never left town. In short order, Willie Pickens emerged as one of the city's most promising pianists, attaining national acclaim on saxophonist Eddie...

Friday's climax of the Ella Fitzgerald Music Festival in Newport News features a cast of personalities and talents almost guaranteed to create a memorable night of jazz. The show includes a pair of very different vocalists in Al Jarreau and Cassandra...

Jerome Footman is the antithesis of a die-hard marathoner: heavyset and of middle age, with a plodding gait. Yet, tomorrow morning he will be one of about 3,000 entrants running in the Under Armour Baltimore Marathon. Footman has no delusion of victory....

From The Times: Wednesday, March 2, 1994 And the winner again . . . Whitney Houston. Although the scene may have shifted from the American Music Awards last month in Los Angeles to the Grammy Awards here on Tuesday night, the result was the same....

Hometown: Baltimore Current Members: Todd Marcus, bass clarinet and soprano clarinet; Issa Lambson, alto saxophone; Russell Kirk, tenor saxophone; Harry Appelman, piano; DeAndre Schaifer, trumpet; Jeff Reed, bass; Lyle Link, alto saxophone and flute;...

Joe Henderson, a tenor saxophonist known for his inventive improvisation and lyrical contemporary jazz style who was late to achieve the widespread fame he had long deserved, has died at age 64. Henderson, who earned three Grammys in the early 1990s when...

Tribute concerts rarely prove worthy of the artists they claim to honor, and when an all-star band is involved, the results can be monumentally irrelevant. But the shrewdly conceived, brilliantly articulated homage to Miles Davis and John Coltrane...