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 ...

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 ...

*On July 30, 2003, longtime Earth Wind and Fire saxophone player Don Myrick was shot and killed by a Santa Monica police officer who mistook a lighter he was holding for a weapon and fired a shot into ...

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 ...

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 ...

When did pop radio get so horny? There’s an indefensible trend in popular music right now, and it needs to stop. Ever since Macklemore’s radio leviathan “Thrift Shop” dominated the airwaves with its ...

Again and again, Steve Wilson has been a "first-call" saxophonist for some of the biggest bandleaders in jazz, including Christian McBride, Maria Schneider and Dave Holland, to name just a few. But he ...

The tenor saxophonist Andrew Love played on some of the most enduring soul records to come out of Memphis in the 1960s. As members of the Mar-Keys, the first house band at Stax Records, Love and his ...