HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Grady Gaines, the Houston-based blues tenor saxophonist whose career brought six decades of backing for a wide range of musicians, has died at 86. Gaines died Thursday night ...
Roomful of Blues Tenor/Guitarist/Vocalist pays his respects to his saxophone influences in a strutting collection of blues, ballads, and show tunes. Who was Piccolo listening to when he grew up? Ben ...
When Chicago blues musician Eddie Shaw played his saxophone, the room seemed to quake. His immense, raspy, growling sound cut through the instrumentals surrounding him. His ornate solos packed vast ...
Before Nat Dixon preaches, he picks up his tenor saxophone and riffs a bit. Blending the gos­pel message with jazz is what the former full-time musician has been doing for years, with his parishioners ...
On a Chicago blues circuit bursting with guitarists and harpists, Eddie Shaw stands out. Apart from longtime peer A.C. Reed, Shaw is virtually the only blues bandleader in town who plays the tenor ...
Bobby Keys’ solo on the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar” is one of the definitive saxophone performances in rock history. His approach to the song seems more influenced by the “down and dirty” vocabulary ...
People are often surprised to learn Vanessa Collier describes herself as shy and introverted. Those labels don’t skew with the vibrant and charismatic blues, soul and funk singer and saxophone player ...
Dale Beacock left his mark on a lot of musical lives in Clark County … and on Mark Davey’s tenor saxophone. Beacock was a longtime Vancouver musician, educator and businessman, and those aspects of ...
If you heard Little Richard in his early days, then you definitely heard the sounds from Houston's Grady Gaines and his saxophone. We look back at his life.