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He played on Bitches Brew and Live-Evil

He worked with musicians including Alice Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Herbie Hancock

SAN DIEGO — Karl Denson has learned some valuable lessons about longevity in his 25 years as a band leader and his nine years as a touring saxophonist in the Rolling Stones, whose lead singer, Mick Jagger, is 13 years older than Denson.

The man who turned bebop upside down with Ornette Coleman went on to work with artists from Sonny Rollins to Ian Dury – and the London jazz festival is set to show he’s still inspiring

PHILADELPHIA — Monnette Sudler, 68, the Philadelphia jazz guitar virtuoso whose career began with the early 1970s avant-garde ensemble Sounds of Liberation and carried on for five decades as a bandleader and backing musician for acts including Grover Washington Jr., David Murray and Archie Shepp, has died.

A vision of jazz’s iconic instrument as an acrobatic, airborne wonder

Senate minority leader suggests African Americans and Americans are two distinct groups. Plus, Sonny Rollins on spending two years playing on the Williamsburg Bridge

It’s one of the most romantic stories in music: the jazz star rejecting fame to practise on a New York bridge for two years. Now 91, Rollins recalls those long cold days – and how he has coped after losing the power to play