"Not as loud as a trumpet. Not as soft as a clarinet ... It was a hard sell at first, but Adolphe got the saxophone into every regimental band in Paris, then Prussia, Italy, Spain, and Hungary ...

During the first 20 years he revolutionized the tenor saxophone's role in jazz ... He's accompanied in this 1959 session by Charlie Shavers (trumpet), Ray Bryant (piano), Tiny Grimes (guitar ...

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 Th ...

This is the first time a recording has won the music ... and Coleman himself playing alto saxophone and trumpet. Coleman has continued to shake up the jazz world ever since releasing his ...

Bechet made his first recording in 1923, according to History.com. It featured “Wild Cat Blues”: “Bechet has left a profound mark on the way the clarinet and the soprano saxophone are played ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...