A good solo is like a great short story: a beginning, an arc upwards, a climax, a denouement. All while surprising us with unexpected twists and turns, typical of a great improviser. This is the ...

It’s been over 10 years since senior year, and honestly, when the YDS-150 showed up at my door, I wasn’t even sure if I would remember how to read sheet music. Turns out, I did.

His career as an influential tenor saxophonist and composer reached across more than half a century, tracking jazz’s complex evolution during that span. By Nate Chinen Wayne Shorter, the ...

Hank Redd, on alto, is incidentally credited as a writer on Rihanna’s 2005 debut ‘Music of the Sun’ – his baritone counterpart Trevor Lawrence has also played on tracks by Marvin Gaye and ...

For the first time in 30 years, the notes of the saxophone will not launch the December Season at the Narada Gana Sabha music hall in Chennai.

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 ...

The 85-year-old is among many jazz giants who have used the Mark VI as their saxophone of choice, including Dexter Gordon, Ornette Coleman, Joe Henderson, Benny Golson, and Wayne Shorter.The list ...

She might be the most stylishly-dressed person in the room, often clad in gold from head to toe to match her trusted saxophone. But the five time Grammy-nominated Lakecia Benjamin ...

The College of Music is excited to announce that Nathan Mertens will join our faculty as assistant professor of saxophone in fall 2023, succeeding longtime Associate Professor of Saxophone Professor ...

Sometimes it takes an extraordinary talent to inspire an unprecedented piece of music. For Puerto Rican-born composer Roberto Sierra, the epiphany struck in the midst of a tenor saxophone solo by ...