For this week's “Music Education Monday," we've got some ideas and information for saxophonists in both video and audio form, courtesy of St. Louis native Greg Osby. Osby, now 54 years old, attended ...

With ten previous Blue Note recordings now behind him, Greg Osby’s jazz ship still flies under jazz stardom’s radar. Perhaps it is because he has neither taken the Young Lion’s bebop-rehash approach ...

It's rare for a modern jazz musician to be equally comfortable in -- and equally suited to -- the roles of sideman and leader. This weeklong stint teams two such rarities, with rapidly rising pianist ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Greg Osby (Handout) Jazz saxophonist and St. Louis native Greg Osby has made a career out of taking chances. Unlike artists who ...

Greg Osby plays hip hop. He plays funk. He plays Japanese folk music. He plays with a classical string quartet. He writes music for urban street poems. He plays with Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead.

Saxophonist and composer Greg Osby will be artist-in-residence at the CU-Boulder College of Music Thompson Jazz Studies Program Oct. 29-31. The residency will feature a public performance with ...

The John Abercrombie Organ Trio will appear with special guest Greg Osby at the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City from January 14th through 17th with sets at 8:30pm and 10:30pm each night. The John ...

Alto saxophonist Greg Osby is a legitimate rarity in jazz: a major-label artist who makes challenging music. Public was cut live at New York’s Jazz Standard during two nights in January, but it’s no ...

When alto saxophonist Greg Osby released Banned in New York (Blue Note), an authorized bootleg recorded on a minidisc machine, in 1998, he said it was an attempt to keep pace with his musical ...

Some music is so tough that you wouldn’t know it had a warm, breathing interior until you found a way to break through its surface. It’s the same reason some prefer peanuts in their shells; takes ...

Alto saxophonist Greg Osby has spent his career looking forward. In the late 80s he was a key player in Brooklyn’s M-BASE crew, a group that combined jazz improvisation with other African-American ...