In advance of the gala concert happening at Town Hall in New York City on June 19, read an except from my book, Ode to a Tenor Titan: The...

IN THE DAILY DELUGE OF DISCS that cross my desk, some noteworthy new releases do pop out. And while I'm not always assigned to review...

The alto sax great, who passed away on Sunday at age 78, was the subject of a Downbeat cover story I wrote in 1988 at a time when he was...