I was playing piano at the airport when another saxophonist suddenly joined the performance. What started as a simple piano ...

In the early 1840s, Belgian instrument maker and musician Adolphe Sax set out to create a new sound for orchestras and ...

The Rova Saxophone Quartet was founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in October 1977 by Jon Raskin, Larry Ochs, Andrew Voigt and Bruce Ackley. The ensemble performed its first concert at the 3rd ...

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 ...

Bruce Springsteen is currently in the middle of a world tour with E Street Band, their first without saxophonist Clarence Clemons. “The Big Man” passed away one year ago today from complications ...

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 ...

Even though other instruments, like guitars, drums, and bass, get more attention, there is something incredibly appealing ...

Many of today’s symphony orchestra instruments have been around for centuries. The violin, for instance, dates to the 1500s and as a result has an enormous repertoire spanning 450 years. The saxophone ...

To mark the bicentenary of the birth of its inventor, Adolph Sax - surely the most famous musical-instrument maker Belgium has ever produced - we present 10 of his instrument’s finest classical ...

Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Adolphe Sax, pictured ca. 1842 Rothman is managing editor at TIME. It took decades—a century even, depending how you count—for Adolphe Sax’s invention to take its ...