Arthur Blythe continues his fruitful association with producer/drummer Cecil Brooks III on Exhale, his latest for the Savant label, also teaming up with longtime partner and tuba player Bob Stewart, ...

Arthur Blythe, whose brawny alto saxophone sound and independent spirit made him a standard-bearer of the New York jazz avant-garde in the late 1970s, died Monday at a retirement home in Lancaster ...

Arthur Blythe, one of the most daring and acclaimed jazz saxophonists of the 1970s and 1980s, died Monday at the age of 76. No cause of death has been given, but the Los Angeles native — who grew up ...

Arthur Blythe has been busy. He has a new recording, and last month completed a stint with his quartet at the Jazz Standard. Blythe is living in his hometown San Diego again, so NYC jazz fans jumped ...

Intimations of Julian “Cannonball” Adderley surfaced frequently in Arthur Blythe’s performance at the Jazz Bakery Thursday night. Similar to the late, great alto saxophonist in sound, as well as girth ...

Reporting from San Diego — Arthur Blythe, one of the most daring and acclaimed jazz saxophonists of the 1970s and ’80s, has died. He was 76. No cause of death was given, but the Los Angeles native had ...

Arthur Blythe possesses one of the most distinctive tones in jazz. His alto sax attack is as large and legendary as the man, who’s world-renowned for gifts as a composer and soloist. His sound is even ...

NEW YORK — Arthur Blythe, whose brawny alto saxophone sound and independent spirit made him a standard-bearer of the New York jazz avant-garde in the late 1970s, died on Monday at a retirement home in ...

Kevin Whitehead remembers alto saxophonist Arthur Blythe, pianist Geri Allen, guitarist John Abercrombie and singer Jon Hendricks. Each "helped shape jazz after the upheavals of the 1960s," he says.

On March 27, a little less than a week after last month’s Ugly Beauty was published, alto saxophonist Arthur Blythe died. This wasn’t a surprise — he’d been suffering from Parkinson’s disease for ...

Arthur Blythe at the North Sea Jazz Festival in 1984 in The Hague, the Netherlands. Frans Schellekens/Redferns Mr. Blythe’s brawny alto saxophone sound and independent spirit made him a ...