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 ...
When tenor saxophonist John Coltrane recorded his composition "Giant Steps" in 1959, he created something that changed the way musicians thought about improvisation and harmony. Decades earlier, the ...
When jazz fans talk about the Texas Tenor saxophone sound, they're talking about a sound which is very robust, sometimes raw, and which mixes the musical vocabularies of swing, bebop, blues and R&B.
Blur guitarist Graham Coxon has nominated King Crimson's Ladies Of The Road as the song which changed his life. Coxon revealed his choice in an interview for The Guardian website's Honest Playlist ...
These qualities have placed her not only among the great tenor sax players, but also in the lineage of masterful ... detours ...
Did you know Debussy wrote a solo orchestral piece for saxophone? One of the youngest instruments of the classical world is the saxophone. Although often heavily associated with jazz, the saxophone ...
Springsteen called Clemons "my great friend" and called his loss "immeasurable." June 19, 2011— -- Music fans today are remembering Clarence Clemons, the powerhouse who helped catapult Bruce ...