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 ...

Invented in the early 1840s, the saxophone was a relative latecomer to music—and to jazz. But starting in the mid-1920s, with the rise of the big bands, the instrument slowly but steadily evolved from ...

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 ...

Six students from the Peoria area will be marching in the 137th Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, playing their ...

You can say one thing about Sonny Rollins: He has an impressive work ethic. His performance Wednesday at Walt Disney Concert Hall was a more than 90-minute jazz extravaganza, propulsively driven by ...

John Coltrane and other famed jazz saxophonists hit piercing high notes that amateurs can't by expertly changing the shape of their vocal tracts, research now reveals. The finding addresses a ...

Saxophonist Buddy Tate, a leading member of the Count Basie Orchestra in the 1940s, has died. Tate died Saturday in Chandler, Ariz. He was 87. Considered by many critics to be one of the more ...

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