Decades earlier, the man who took the first leaps and bounds with the tenor sax in jazz was Coleman Hawkins. Before Hawkins arrived on the jazz scene with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra in the ...

While quality saxophones made by domestic manufacturers were plentiful in ... When he was asked to switch from alto to tenor one day in high school he just took his dad’s instrument without ...

The introduction of this tune sounds as if Ammons captured the flow of a river through his tenor sax. The song picks up into a steady, swinging current from there.

Cecil “Big Jay” McNeely, whose honking tenor saxophone helped define Los Angeles rhythm and blues and set the stage for the rock ’n’ roll explosion of the 1950s, has died. He was 91.

who played tenor saxophone with Robert Lockwood Jr.'s band ... he worked for a West Side furniture manufacturer. Reedus, who served in the Army in the early 1950s, worked for the Postal Service ...

On this week’s Rhythm Planet program, we focus on the modern evolution of that most jazzy of instruments, the tenor sax. Years ago I saw an ad in Down Beat magazine for knit shirts of the Lacoste ...

Ms. Daly graduated from Berklee in 1980 and moved to Cape Cod, where she joined Dish, an all-women new wave band, and then toured the area with another rock band, playing alto and tenor saxophone.

Widely regarded as an original founder of the "Chicago school of tenor sax," Ammons' nonchalant, yet indelible sound—echoing the soft, breathy tone of Lester Young—drove him to a great deal of fame ...