Coleman Hawkins may have helped to thrust the tenor saxophone out of the novelty arena and into the anti-gravity space of jazz improvisation, but even he could not have predicted how the tenor ...

He actually envisioned a saxophone section in the orchestra.” In fact, there are six members of the saxophone family, though orchestral music is written primarily for soprano, alto and 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 ... During Stalin’s time, saxophones were banned ...

Gordon is generally considered the first leading player of bebop on the tenor saxophone. He was also influenced heavily by Lester Young’s sense of melody and time, and he used far less vibrato ...

Granted, the guy looked like a madman with all sorts of woodwinds strapped around him, with maybe a tenor sax or manzello and stritch (both obscure saxophones) in his mouth at the same time ...

Fifty years ago this past year, Coleman Hawkins, considered the father of tenor saxophone ... and gravitated to saxophone by age nine. He attributed his skill to years of work. "Sure," he recalled in ...

A self-taught musician — best known for his tenor saxophone work ... And that’s why maybe the German way of playing this kind of music sounds always a bit different than the music from ...

Bandleader Jean-Baptiste Illinois Jacquet was widely recognized as the king of the tenor saxophone ... Saxophonist Frank Foster recalled the first time he heard Jacquet's solo, noting, "It ...