The soprano saxophone has never been a dominant instrument in mainstream jazz, but it's been in the mix since the beginning. Take a quick tour of the soprano sax throughout jazz history with the help ...

The soprano saxophone, unlike the clarinet or tenor sax, was never popular in jazz until Sidney Bechet, who was the first jazz musician to use it exclusively. A contemporary of Louis Armstrong and ...

Sam Newsome's Blue Soliloquy is available at CD Baby. Soprano saxophone can be an unforgiving instrument. It's hard to play in tune, and many players get a pinched or nasal tone like it has a bad cold ...

Black Architect Julian Abele was the chief designer for the Philadelphia architectural firm of Horace Trumbauer and played a ...

Steve Lacy, a leading soprano saxophonist in the modern era of jazz and one of the few jazz musicians awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called “genius grant,” has died. He was 69. Lacy died ...

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 ...

Far be it for me to tell you how to spend your time and money during a seemingly interminable storm on a Thursday night. But if you have any affinity for the silvery sound that slips from Kenny G's ...