The year was 1972 and Charles Owens’ reputation as one of the most gifted and versatile young musicians in Los Angeles was growing by the day. At the time, Owens — who’d already earned attention for ...

Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, has died. He was 89.

John Stubblefield, 60, a versatile jazz saxophonist who worked with some of the leading names in jazz including Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and McCoy Tyner, died July 4 of prostate cancer at a ...