"The family that plays together stays together," says Greg Davis, who plays drums, sax, trombone and guitar in the band he, his wife and their three sons formed in 1983 called the Davis Family Band.

Shaun Brown, 17, son of Anne and Myles of Swampscott, seems never to have met a musical instrument he didn’t like. He picked up the guitar when he was 12 and the rest is history. Now in his third year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The basic Budos formula remains the same—snaky tendrils of guitar, smoky ribbons of electric organ, and hard-hitting rhythms ...

Among the brass family, the trombone hasn't won as prominent a position in jazz as has the trumpet. The stereotypical image of a jazz musician could, until very recently, be said to have been that of ...