The tenor sax is a jazz instrument. The paradigmatic jazz instrument, if I may thrown in a $50 word. How many tenor sax sonatas or concertos can you think of that feature the tenor as a solo, or even ...

The tenor sax is a powerful instrument. This is especially apparent in music created by mighty jazz masters whose skills shaped sounds still reflected in present-day compositions. This week's Take ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - One of the great tenor sax players in the country is making a stop in the Tri-State for a special one-night only engagement. Harry Allen has been called the perfect jazz soloist by ...

The story of Stan Getz (1927-1991) has to begin with Lester Young. Before Young, tenor sax players seemed awash in testosterone. Their sound was full, rich, deep, blown hard out of the instrument's ...

Texas tenor sax players are generally typecast as a gutbucket honker (Arnett Cobb) or as a soulful, blues oriented stylist (David "Fathead" Newman). There are exceptions, however, and Dewey Redman and ...

Softspoken at age 17, almost bashful behind his horn-rimmed glasses, decked out in a black T-shirt, blue jeans and black sneakers, Jason Chrisman would be hard to pick out of the crowd of student ...

The music collected here comes from a period of Coltrane's career, namely the closing years of the 1950s, which so many tenor sax players have latched on to in the decades since. At that stage in his ...