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 ...

Hum along as the University of Iowa Dimma Saxophone Quartet serenades you with "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?" The quartet ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Deciding to learn how to play the saxophone is one thing.

Cosmo Lieberman of Hermosa Beach was recently recognized with a 2022 YoungArts award in the Jazz alto saxophone category. Lieberman joins 720 accomplished visual, literary and performing artists ...

American jazz musicians Charlie Parker, on alto sax, and Thelonious Monk, on piano, perform at the Open Door Cafe, in New York City on September 14, 1953. getty Images, Bob Parent / Contributor In ...

There weren’t many female jazz musicians when Carol Sudhalter started her career. Now she spends her Sundays sharing what she has learned. By Nancy A. Ruhling Although Carol Sudhalter’s first love was ...

Cecil “Big Jay” McNeely, whose honking tenor saxophone helped define Los Angeles rhythm and blues and set the stage for the rock ’n’ roll explosion of the 1950s, has died. He was 91. A singular figure ...

If you were to randomly draw the names of “most charming and best-loved American popular standards" out of a hat, chances are you could not fare much better than Pennsylvania-based baritone ...

It's considered by many to be music's sexiest instrument. Its versatile sound, so like a great singer's voice — sweetly seductive one moment, growling and blustery the next — has become virtually ...

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