Pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi overcame numerous challenges during her long career, immigrating to a new country, establishing herself as both a top bandleader and composer/arranger, in addition to the ...

Zoot Sims took me to meet Coleman Hawkins and I saw a man who was only 60 years old who wanted to die. He had been the king and then other people rose to prominence, like Sonny Rollins and Stan Getz ...

A jazzman for those in the know, Lew Tabackin helped redefine the big band solo, contributed to classic sessions and has toured worldwide continuously, giving workshops and playing venues large and ...

Ten-time Grammy Award-nominee jazz flutist and saxophone player Lew Tabackin will headline the sixth annual Zoot Fest to honor the late jazz sax great Zoot Sims at East Stroudsburg University. Zoot ...

Remembering Bud (Toshiko Akiyoshi, Evidence). The Carnegie Hall concert recording is a must. It features Toshiko Akiyoshi leading her band from piano, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet and her husband, Lew ...

Lew Tabackin, tenor saxophonist and flutist, performs with the Kent Hewitt Trio tonight at 8:30 as part of the Celebrity Jazz Series at Brown Thomson restaurant, 942 Main St., Hartford. Tabackin has ...

April 30-May 1: Lew Tabackin—a saxophonist and flutist whose five-decade-plus career includes having co-led an acclaimed big band with his wife, Toshiko Akiyoshi—may be best heard in the lean company ...

Pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi and saxophonist/flutist Lew Tabackin began their musical relationship in 1968 with the formation of a quartet rooted in modern acoustic jazz. While they never abandoned small ...

With a list of jazz critics' awards as long as his saxophone, Lew Tabackin is a jazzman's jazzman. As a soloist, he redefined the big-band solo, playing both sax and flute with the best big bands in ...

Lew Tabackin readily talks about the tenor saxophonists who have inspired him, and whom, to various degrees, he copied early. The list includes Lester Young, Ben Webster, Don Byas and, most ...