The saxophone can be as beautifully melodic as a violin or a clarinet – but the classical music world hasn’t always seen eye to eye with the instrument. We asked saxophonist Jess Gillam to explain why ...

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 ...

When Spain's Ramon Mañas moved to Berlin to study music, he started learning the saxophone. But as the sax is a loud instrument, he couldn't do so when and where he liked. This led to the development ...

The first recording by Wesleyan University music Professor Anthony Braxton, “Three Compositions of New Jazz,” was issued by Delmark Records in 1968. The alto saxophonist-composer had studied at the ...

The Lamont Saxophone Quartet plays in the CPR Performance Studio. The Lamont Saxophone Quartet plays a concert looking at 100 years of sax quartet music on Friday at the Newman Center. Art Bouton, who ...

Aaron Burr will be the featured soloist at an upcoming concert presented by the Central Washington University Wind Ensemble.

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 ...

A listener who remembers when saxophone quartets were a novelty—and a controversial one at that—is probably wondering how much the Cost-of-Living Adjustment will be for Social Security in 2025. Yes, ...

The opening track – “Ālibek’agnimi” (“አልበቃኝም” in its original title) – is a cool, close-to six-minute soul instrumental on ...

It was the picture of the DJ – headphones around his neck, saxophone in his hands – that caught Tiffany Yamasaki’s eye. She didn’t like the music options her wedding venue offered, and seeing the ...