Joan Tower’s concerto for alto saxophone was brilliantly delivered by Steven Banks, part of a lively concert ...
High School Students Can Win Top Prizes Including a Selmer Saxophone I won a Selmer baritone saxophone last year and it ...
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 ...
A guy asked if I could play Careless Whisper, and I didn’t expect what would happen next. As the familiar melody started on ...
The year is 1959; America remains perturbed by political unease both at home and abroad. It is in a covert war with th ...
Picking up his saxophone after an extended hiatus, Hutchings expands his musical world with shakuhachi flutes and experimental electronics on self-produced solo album Of The Earth ...
Artie Shaw, who for twenty years was the enfant terrible of the jazz world and of the Hollywood matrimonial market, is rapidly emerging as a force in another, essentially un-melodic endeavor—the ...
Joshua Redman, Jack DeJohnette, Gary Giddins and more musicians and writers highlight their favorites from the “saxophone colossus.” Credit...Dante Zaballa Supported by By Giovanni Russonello Walter ...
“File:The Band 2005710093.jpg” by Heinrich Klaffs is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Garth Hudson, the multi-instrumentalist best known for his lucid virtuosity on the organ, a sound that enhanced ...
A saxophonist in Nakhon Ratchasima suffered a severe injury when his finger was caught and partially severed by a washing machine. Doctors confirmed the need to amputate the upper part of his finger ...