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 ...

Capable of far more than a slightly sleazy solo (though to be honest that’s part of the appeal) the presence of this golden-hued instrument has elevated hundreds of songs into straight-up super hits.

Norwegian musician Håkon Kornstad blends jazz and opera, singing tenor while playing saxophone. He debuts in Minneapolis, San Francisco, and Davis, merging classical arias, Nordic songs, and ...

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 ...

Blur guitarist Graham Coxon has nominated King Crimson's Ladies Of The Road as the song which changed his life. Coxon ...

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 ...

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 jazz fans talk about the Texas Tenor saxophone sound, they're talking about a sound which is very robust, sometimes raw, and which mixes the musical vocabularies of swing, bebop, blues and R&B.

When the famous writers known as The Beats were driving all across the country in the mid-20th century, searching for that numinous muse, they would often search for the best saxophone players who ...