Every once in a while, a single instrument arrives and rewrites the rules. Not just for music, but for culture itself. Think about it. A strip of brass and a few keys gave birth to jazz. A solid block ...

What it’s about: The inventor of the saxotromba! Also, the saxtuba, saxhorn, and more consequentially, the saxophone. Name enough things after yourself, and eventually one of them is going to stick.

The soprano saxophone, unlike the clarinet or tenor sax, was never popular in jazz until Sidney Bechet, who was the first jazz musician to use it exclusively. A contemporary of Louis Armstrong and ...

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 district’s policy in the 1980s let students try an instrument for a month before requiring families to buy their own, he ...

The Rova Saxophone Quartet was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in October 1977 by Jon Raskin, Larry Ochs, Andrew Voigt and Bruce Ackley. The ensemble performed its first concert at the 3rd ...

Music became Ian Resurreccion’s passport to travel the world. Through every balikbayan box of instruments he sends home, he hopes it can become someone else’s too.

LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) - Grammy-nominated saxophonist Mickey Huber Smith, Jr. and many other musicians all performed Sunday night at the civic center for the 'Sax in the City' benefit concert. The ...