The tenor sax is a jazz instrument. The paradigmatic jazz instrument, if I may thrown in a $50 word. How many tenor sax sonatas or concertos can you think of that feature the tenor as a solo, or even ...

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 ...

Since the glory days of the 70’s and ‘80s, the saxophone has really gone out of style. But try telling that to Elvis. No, not ...

A saxophonist with a searing tone honed in the bands of Charles Mingus, Art Blakey and Miles Davis, Gary Bartz is often depicted as one of jazz’s great improvisers. He doesn’t see himself that way.

Two recent releases from the free jazz universe of music celebrate two of the greatest saxophone icons of the 20th century, Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders. I was first exposed to free jazz at a ...

British saxophonist Jess Gillam lit up the Ordway Concert Hall this week in St. Paul, in the first saxophone recital presented by the Schubert Club’s “International Artist Series.” Performing with ...