Learn about well-known alto saxophone players. See how their music, style, and talent made them stand out around the world.

Zoot Sims, left, and Al Cohn performing on stage. Al Cohn, circa 1980. Saxophonist John 'Zoot' Sims on break at WTTW Studios during a taping of the show Soundstage in Chicago, Nov. 26, 1979. Harry ...

Almost no other instrument seems so synonymous with jazz as the sax. Listen to some classic alto playing from Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt and more greats.

Jazz, blues, classical, funk, pop, soul, bossa nova, gospel, rock, Afrobeat, disco and country. These are just some of the styles of music that tenor saxophone great Houston Person has performed in ...

PARIS — Jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin, who played with America’s greats but chose to live in France, died hours before a concert, his agent said Saturday. He was 80. Griffin, whose career spanned ...

Two recent releases from the free jazz universe of music celebrate two of the greatest saxophone icons of the 20th century, Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders. I was first exposed to free jazz at a ...

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NEWARK - Wayne Shorter, an influential jazz innovator whose lyrical, complex jazz compositions and pioneering saxophone playing sounded through more than half a century of American music, has died. He ...

He is revered by many, if not most, baritone saxophone players as the “godfather” of the instrument. He could blow and hold notes on his saxophone like few other players then or since. He was a ...

The countywide jazz band included students from Blue Mountain, Mahanoy Area, North Schuylkill, Pottsville, Schuylkill Haven, ...