It's a primal scene in the personal myth of many a saxophonist: that first glimpse of the golden horn that embodies a world of shining aspiration. "Sonny Rollins," according to his Web site, "first ...

It's like Michael Jackson says in "Thriller" – they feel the creature creeping up behind them; they're almost out of time. The four seniors, who performed the cult song on saxophone – replete with ...

‘It’s the sound of the third millennium,” pronounces renowned saxophonist Joe Lovano. “This is the horn everybody will be playing 100 years from now. Lovano, trying out the horn in his home studio in ...

NEW YORK – John Coltrane’s saxophone. Dizzy Gillespie’s bent trumpet. Lionel Hampton’s vibraphone.These were among a treasure trove of 450 pieces of jazz memorabilia that will be auctioned ...

In The Devil's Horn, Segell traces the 160-year history of the saxophone a horn that created a sound never before heard in nature, and that from the moment it debuted has aroused both positive and ...

Bruce Springsteen is currently in the middle of a world tour with E Street Band, their first without saxophonist Clarence Clemons. “The Big Man” passed away one year ago today from complications ...

I recently saw Steven Spielberg's new movie, Munich. When the Israeli hero moves to Brooklyn, the sound of a saxophone inevitably appears, signaling The City and Sex. Saxophone's evocative nature is ...

Sonny Rollins, one of the greatest living practitioners of jazz, bought the saxophone he still uses today on West 48th Street in Manhattan in the 1970s. Back then, the small block was dotted with so ...

Trumpeter Wayne Jackson was the personification of mixed emotions in February when he and his longtime musical partner, saxophonist Andrew Love, were presented with a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award ...