For many Koreans the saxophone may evoke Cha In-pyo’s iconic 1990s screen persona, donning a shirt that’s unbuttoned a tad too low and rocking the instrument to woo a lady, or the likes of jazz ...

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 ...

Capable of far more than a slightly sleazy solo (though to be honest that’s part of the appeal) the presence of this golden-hued instrument has elevated hundreds of songs into straight-up super hits.

Timothy McAllister is one of the classical saxophone wizards of our day, busy with his own PRISM saxophone quartet and lately becoming the man of the hour for a couple of big jazz-inspired works by ...

You might be surprised to find out just how often the saxophone is used in classic rock. Not just relegated to jazz or big band music, there are sax players who roll and growl, swoop and dive on their ...

Bruce Springsteen used to do a bit during his concerts in which he’d recount the fanciful story of how he first saw Clarence Clemons as a distant figure on a bridge, approaching slowly through the fog ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Vivien Schweitzer THE saxophone, invented by the Belgian-born instrument maker Adolphe Sax around 1840, has seldom achieved prominence in the ...