Long before jazz pianist Billy Taylor became world-famous, he planned in high school to switch to saxophone. But then he heard the new kid in school — Frank Wess — play the horn. “He’s the reason I ...

Frank Wellington Wess was born on Jan. 4, 1922, in Kansas City. He grew up and learned the saxophone in Oklahoma, but took his horn seriously only after he moved to Washington, D.C., and attended ...

WASHINGTON — Legendary jazz musician Frank Wess, 91, died on November 3. For more than 70 years, Wess performed around the world, playing multiple instruments in some America’s greatest jazz bands. To ...

Frank Wess (born January 4, 1922 in Kansas City) is an American jazz musician, who has played saxophone (both alto and tenor) and flute. He began with classical music and played in Oklahoma. He later ...

The saxophonist and flutist Frank Wess, whose time in the woodwind section of the Count Basie Orchestra propelled a long career, died Wednesday afternoon at age 91. The cause was kidney failure, ...

Idaho ambush: Conspiracy theories about shooter Wess Roley going viral. Wess Roley was identified as the 20-year-old shooter who killed two firefighters and injured one in an ambush in Idaho. Roley's ...

Wess Roley's mother, Heather Lynn Kuuipo Cuchiara, had sought an order of protection against his father, Jason Roley. The couple divorced in November 2015. New details have surfaced about the troubled ...