"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A shared love of jazz led author Lesa Cline-Ransome and illustrator James Ransome to discover inventor Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax and the... Trumpet was too loud, clarinet was too soft — here ...