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 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.
"I was born to play music. I heard music in my mother's stomach. And I knocked on the navel and said, 'Let me out, I want out, I want to play.' " Jean-Baptiste "Illinois" Jacquet, tenor saxophonist ...
The owner of a famous saxophone would like it back after it vanished from the stage of a downtown theatre in Vancouver on Friday. The tenor saxophone once belonged to Ross Taggart who died five years ...