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 ...

2. Mendini by Cecilio E-Flat Alto Saxophone According to the manufacturer, each instrument is assembled with over 300 hand-crafted parts that are all made exclusively by Cecilio.

In my mind, alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett and tenor saxophonists Mark Turner and Chris Potter have been the most influential to saxophonists of my generation and the generation before. ’00s-’10s ...

Although often heavily associated with jazz, the saxophone was invented in 1846, way before the development of the early 20th century genre. Made in Belgium by Adolphe Sax, the four most common ...

The saxophone market also stabilized into the baritone, tenor, alto and soprano range that’s popular today. But it wasn’t until the early 1920s that the saxophone became known as a serious ...

Produced eventually in baritone, tenor, alto and soprano models, the saxophone became a creative tool of the first magnitude only in the early 1920s, when New Orleans clarinet player Sidney Bechet ...

The most influential jazz musician after bebop, the tenor saxophonist nurtured a career marked by rapid growth in improvisational technique and ideas. By the late 1950s, he had already produced ...

Kadri Gopalnath was a youngster growing up in a village in southern India when he first heard the alto saxophone at a performance by the Mysore Palace Band, a holdover from the years of British ...

Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins was one of the two tenor saxophone titans, with Coltrane, of the '50s and '60s. His album title Saxophone Colossus (OJC, 1956) was titled quite accurately! His mother was ...