Verve has announced that Coleman Hawkins’ 1958 album, ‘Coleman Hawkins And Confrères,’ will be reissued via the Acoustic ...

Oklahoma State University professors Joe Cooper and Johnny Salinas collaborate to record music as Composite Brass Duo. The ...

It took decades—a century even, depending how you count—for Adolphe Sax’s invention to take its place in history. The Belgian instrument maker, born 201 years ago, on Nov. 6, 1814, patented the ...

Many of today’s symphony orchestra instruments have been around for centuries. The violin, for instance, dates to the 1500s and as a result has an enormous repertoire spanning 450 years. The saxophone ...

The Second Sunday Series will begin its 2025-2026 season on Sept. 21. The series is generally held on the second Sunday of ...

I’ve played music since my mother read somewhere (in 1990) that kids who learn to play music score higher on SAT tests. That ...

Adolphe Sax made this alto saxophone in 1857, long after he had switched to brass. The sax is still a woodwind instrument, though. Photo courtesy National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota The ...

Originally consisting of saxophonists David Murray, Julius Hemphill, Oliver Lake and Hamiet Bluiett, the World Saxophone Quartet is one of the finest and most unusual small combos in jazz today. The ...

Classical saxophonist Sigurd M. Rascher, who devoted his life to redeeming his instrument from what he once bemoaned as its stereotype as an emitter of “vulgar, obtrusive sound,” has died. He was 93.

Army veteran Wayne Hoey takes his saxophone with him everywhere. It came in handy this month when his flight sat on the tarmac for more than an hour in Atlanta. Hoey was returning from a family visit ...