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 ...

The tenor sax is a powerful instrument. This is especially apparent in music created by mighty jazz masters whose skills shaped sounds still reflected in present-day compositions. This week's Take ...

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.

Glover fought to build a life in music. From Portland, Ore., to New York City, her story traces resilience, creativity and ...

Blur guitarist Graham Coxon has nominated King Crimson's Ladies Of The Road as the song which changed his life. Coxon revealed his choice in an interview for The Guardian website's Honest Playlist ...

Did you know Debussy wrote a solo orchestral piece for saxophone? One of the youngest instruments of the classical world is the saxophone. Although often heavily associated with jazz, the saxophone ...

Queens-born saxophonist John DiFiore, who played with legends like the Glenn Miller Band, has spent 50 years teaching and performing jazz in Fargo-Moorhead.