The 3m-tall subcontrabass saxophone’s lowest note is just about within the human range of hearing. Enjoy this wonderful video of Italian jazz musician Attilio Berni, a graduate of the Santa Cecilia ...

A 1978 hit has been ranked as having the greatest saxophone solo of all time, thanks to one unforgettable musical moment. Even though other instruments, like guitars, drums, and bass, get more ...

In 1993, as the world was welcoming a new US President, and it wasn't just rousing speeches that were being heard from the new POTUS. During the official inaugural ball that day, President Bill ...

Invented in the early 1840s, the saxophone was a relative latecomer to music—and to jazz. But starting in the mid-1920s, with the rise of the big bands, the instrument slowly but steadily evolved from ...

1846: Emerging from his Paris workshop, musician-inventor Adolphe Sax files 14 patents for an instrument destined to revolutionize American music nearly a century later. His new invention: the ...

Users are using the trending audio to soundtrack moments when they feel an impending sense of doom Getty (2) Feeling an impending sense of doom lately? You're not alone. Over the last few weeks, ...

I was playing piano at the airport when a talented saxophonist walked over and joined the performance. What began as a solo ...

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 ...

Sonny Rollins, the jazz legend dubbed the Saxophone Colossus who redefined the language of the genre with his inimitable improvisational skills, died on Monday at his home in Woodstock, NY. He was 95.