Saxophone fans can check out performances from students, faculty and professionals at a festival at Augustana College this month. Augustana is hosting the annual Shockingly Modern Saxophone Festival ...

University of Connecticut’s Saxophone Quartet brought a diverse collection of music to the von der Mehden Recital Hall at their spring recital on Friday. The program opened with a march by Henry ...

“I enjoy the combination of saxophone and electronics. I think it is part of our age, the development of electronic sounds,” said Dr. John Sampen, a professor of saxophone at Bowling Green State ...

This fall, UCLA musicians will perform saxophone pieces ranging from classical to contemporary. Taking place Sunday, the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music’s Fall Saxophone Studio Recital promises an ...

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 Beat magazine for knit shirts of the Lacoste ...

It is easy to associate the term classical music with instrumental pieces written centuries ago by composers like Mozart or Beethoven. But contemporary composers like Thomas Weaver are looking to ...

Have you ever heard a Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone in the 1840s? It is a versatile woodwind instrument known for its smooth, expressive sound. Saxophonists are musicians who use the smooth, ...

Since the 1840s, when the saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax, the wind instrument named after him has become a key component of jazz groups ranging from big bands to small combos. It was also a ...

Jessy Arellano -- more commonly known as Jessy J -- has been called the queen of contemporary sax. She has a way with blending Latin with contemporary jazz that always comes out as a smooth jazz sound ...

The educational market is saturated with printed materials that regurgitate the same concepts with slight-to-little-to-no variation, playing—or preying, perhaps—on everything from foundational needs ...

Jazz and the saxophone both entered the national consciousness around the end of World War I, and it was clear at that point that the two would have some kind of a future together. But for a few years ...