Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the music industry and the people within it. With over 75 million albums sold worldwide, multiplatinum Saxophonist ...

The word "iconic" is sorely overused, but if there's a sax riff in rock history that deserves it, it's probably the one that Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" its palpable air of melancholy cool. Adam ...

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 ...

You wonder what Chief Borders is bumping in his headphones over there an hour before cleats meet turf? Hand them over. Let's hear it. Wait, now. Is that some "Songbird" by Kenny G tickling the ...

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 ...

FROM AN axman to the saxman. Visually pivoting from Paul Bunyan to instrument inventor Adolphe Sax might sound like quite a steep creative leap, but in the elegantly joyful style of artist Lydia ...

Asked for a particular riff he wished he'd come up with, the Megadeth frontman revealed the movie theme's compositional value in his mind. He added some color to the disclosure by remembering that Don ...