When they were looking for a short and sweet name for their saxophone quartet in fall 2016, the men of ~Nois decided to shorten the word “Illinois” to solidify their status as a Chicago-based group.

The world’s largest saxophone makes a booming noise so low that people have compared it to the horn a ship sounds when it’s sinking. The mammoth musical instrument has a tube length of 6.745 m (22 ft ...

There is push and pull. There is give and take. There are crests and there are troughs. Saxophone player Miguel Zenon, when performing his combination of jazz and Latin American folkloric music, seems ...

The British musician is an artist in residence at Winter Jazzfest in New York this week, playing an instrument group that he first picked up in 2019. By Hugh Morris Reporting from London As Shabaka ...

In the middle of their set at the Paramount a couple weekends ago, surrounded by windmilling guitarists and kit-smashing drummers, one of Modest Mouse’s new members pulled out a trumpet. A couple ...

When Belgian Instrument Maker Adolphe Sax stuck a reed into a conical brass tube and patented the hybrid in 1846, he contributed a new instrument to the military band. In time his saxophone traveled ...

Possibly, more than any other instrument, the saxophone defines the sound of jazz. Most jazz combos have at least one saxophonist on the front—and when you see that saxophone, you know it's going to ...