As their band name suggests, Battle Trance—a spiritually-intense, shapeshifting unit led by Vermont/Brooklyn hornsmith Travis Laplante and featuring a unique set-up of four tenor saxophones—wrestle ...

Some jazz-improv hawks demonise opera as the robber baron of music funding, but Håkon Kornstad, the Norwegian free-jazz saxophone virtuoso, went on a whim to the New York Met in 2009, wept, and came ...