When Spain's Ramon Mañas moved to Berlin to study music, he started learning the saxophone. But as the sax is a loud instrument, he couldn't do so when and where he liked. This led to the development ...

On April 12 at the Von der Mehden Recital Hall, the University of Connecticut Saxophone Studio performed “A Celebration of Zachary Rubin” in honor of the second-semester music and finance major ...

Chris Mitchell started his career on the streets, playing for tips and the joy of strangers on the go. Today, Mitchell is the ...

As I was playing piano, a saxophonist walked up and decided to join in. The moment transformed into an impromptu duet as we ...

Cheesy, cool, noisy, sweet – the sax is a versatile beast that has made many great songs even better The saxophone has earned its place in just about every modern music genre. Listen to the earliest ...

The first recording by Wesleyan University music Professor Anthony Braxton, “Three Compositions of New Jazz,” was issued by Delmark Records in 1968. The alto saxophonist-composer had studied at the ...

Did you know Debussy wrote a solo orchestral piece for saxophone? One of the youngest instruments of the classical world is the saxophone. Although often heavily associated with jazz, the saxophone ...

British saxophonist Jess Gillam lit up the Ordway Concert Hall this week in St. Paul, in the first saxophone recital presented by the Schubert Club’s “International Artist Series.” Performing with ...

Studio musicians contribute immeasurably, and often anonymously, to the fabric of pop music, making it a rarity when one rises above that anonymity the way saxophonist Raphael Ravenscroft did as the ...

Blowhards: New players such as Brendan Mills, left, and Lewis Evans, centre are bringing the saxophone back in from the cold (Getty/iStock/The Independent) Get the inside track from Roisin O'Connor ...