The tenor sax is a jazz instrument. The paradigmatic jazz instrument, if I may thrown in a $50 word. How many tenor sax sonatas or concertos can you think of that feature the tenor as a solo, or even ...

Jazz, blues, classical, funk, pop, soul, bossa nova, gospel, rock, Afrobeat, disco and country. These are just some of the styles of music that tenor saxophone great Houston Person has performed in ...

Coleman Hawkins, known as "The Hawk" or "Bean," basically invented tenor sax as we know it, all the way down to Bill Clinton playing his way to office. After making many recordings with various groups ...

One of Europe’s most influential free-jazz musicians, he played with “a kind of scream” to exorcise his demons, and those of German history. By Mike Rubin Peter Brötzmann, an avant-garde saxophonist ...

The British musician is an artist in residence at Winter Jazzfest in New York this week, playing an instrument group that he first picked up in 2019. By Hugh Morris Reporting from London As Shabaka ...

The saxophone can sound sad, fun, or full of emotion, and few other instruments show emotion as well as it does. Since Adolphe Sax invented it in the 1840s, this brass and woodwind hybrid has gone ...