Sonny Rollins, one of the greatest living practitioners of jazz, bought the saxophone he still uses today on West 48th Street in Manhattan in the 1970s. Back then, the small block was dotted with so ...

The alto saxophone suggestively whispered my name as I walked past it inside the AmeriPawn store. I turned around to see if it was just playing with my head. I haven’t played a sax since my teenage ...

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 ...

Jazz, blues, classical, funk, pop, soul, bossa nova, gospel, rock, Afrobeat, disco and country. These are just some of the styles of music that tenor saxophone great Houston Person has performed in ...

Cheesy, cool, noisy, sweet – the sax is a versatile beast that has made many great songs even better The saxophone has earned its place in just about every modern music genre. Listen to the earliest ...

Metal has increasingly become about how extreme a band can be – how fast they play, how intense their songs are, how unsettling their mythos is – or so they’d lead the listener to believe. But metal’s ...

Seventy years ago, jazz great Charlie Parker played a plastic saxophone at what many call the greatest jazz concert ever. A new deluxe reissue of that recording is out now. More than 70 years ago, ...