Type of saxophone: Saxes come in five basic varieties: Alto, tenor, soprano, bass, and baritone. The tenor is perhaps the jazziest of the bunch, but the alto is the real classic. It is also the ...

In fact, there are six members of the saxophone family, though orchestral music is written primarily for soprano, alto and tenor. Sax was an ambitious, brilliant man who had a knack for making ...

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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 ...

Matt Stohrer, a vintage saxophone repairman in North Carolina ... When he was asked to switch from alto to tenor one day in high school he just took his dad’s instrument without telling him ...

While Charlie Parker was indisputably the first proponent of bebop on the alto saxophone, Gordon is generally considered the first leading player of bebop on the tenor saxophone. He was also ...

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 ...

Ms. Daly graduated from Berklee in 1980 and moved to Cape Cod, where she joined Dish, an all-women new wave band, and then toured the area with another rock band, playing alto and tenor saxophone.

By the early 1900s, the saxophone had become a comedy fixture on the vaudeville circuit, where musicians used the instrument to mimic chicken sounds. Produced eventually in baritone, tenor ...

alto saxophone; Melissa Kret, tenor saxophone; and Dillon Warner, baritone saxophone. All four artists are students in instrumental music education at Central Michigan University under the ...