For her latest project, Lithic, Misch journeyed into caves, quarries and coastal environments to forge a record shaped by ...

Sonny Rollins, who has died aged 95, was, as the title of his most celebrated album declared, a Saxophone Colossus.

Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, the "Saxophone Colossus" who was schooled by bebop's legends as a prized sideman and became their peer as a formidable leader, improviser and composer, has died, ...

Musician Kidum's heartwarming surprise for his son’s birthday, featuring meals and saxophone tunes in school. A beautiful ...

Michael Segell discusses his new book, The Devil's Horn. It follows the history of the saxophone through more than 160 years as a controversial classical, jazz and rock instrument. HANSEN: The ...

The 3m-tall subcontrabass saxophone’s lowest note is just about within the human range of hearing. Enjoy this wonderful video of Italian jazz musician Attilio Berni, a graduate of the Santa Cecilia ...

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Adolphe Sax made this alto saxophone in 1857, long after he had switched to brass. The sax is still a woodwind instrument, though. Photo courtesy National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota The ...

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 ...

Many of today’s symphony orchestra instruments have been around for centuries. The violin, for instance, dates to the 1500s and as a result has an enormous repertoire spanning 450 years. The saxophone ...

One of the last stars of the bebop generation, Rollins was a genius of melodic invention and improvisation, working with Davis, Monk, Coltrane and others ...