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 ...

What is your favorite saxophone part or parts in a rock ’n’ roll song? The sax is one of my favorite instruments. Its importance in jazz music cannot be overstated, but it also is a instrumental in ...

NEW BOOK! ESSENTIAL SOLOS FOR ALTO SAX, TENOR SAX, GUITAR, TRUMPET & FLUTE - 28 Solos on Popular Jazz Standards Saxophonist, author and educator, Jeff Harrington, is a Professor at Berklee College of ...

On this week’s Rhythm Planet program, we focus on the modern evolution of that most jazzy of instruments, the tenor sax. Years ago I saw an ad in Down Beat magazine for knit shirts of the Lacoste ...

When tenor saxophonist John Coltrane recorded his composition "Giant Steps" in 1959, he created something that changed the way musicians thought about improvisation and harmony. Decades earlier, the ...

Bandleader Jean-Baptiste Illinois Jacquet was widely recognized as the king of the tenor saxophone. During a career spanning more than 60 years, Jacquet played with everyone from Count Basie to Cab ...

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 ...

Christine Jensen: conductor, soprano saxophone (solo on 6); Donny Kennedy: alto saxophone (solo on 1), soprano saxophone, flute; Erik Hove: alto saxophone (solo on 5), flute; Joel Miller: tenor ...

There are performances that rewire your brain chemistry, forcing you to listen to music and sound in different ways. Roscoe Mitchell’s solo set at the Jeff Mangum curated All Tomorrow’s Parties ...

This article was originally published in Death and Taxes on February 24, 2012. The saxophone is an instrument that has run through an ongoing cycle of cool and uncool dating back to the birth of rock ...

It's impossible to think of the Pink Panther -- that sly cat who starred in the opening credits of the classic 1963 Peter Sellers comedy of the same name and in scores of Saturday morning cartoons -- ...