Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Michelle Bracken/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST) Sonny Rollins, the "saxophone colossus" who was widely considered America's greatest ...

Sonny Rollins, the jazz legend dubbed the Saxophone Colossus who redefined the language of the genre with his inimitable improvisational skills, died on Monday at his home in Woodstock, NY. He was 95.

The ensemble’s first performance inside the Chapel sparked a musical mission rooted in history, place, and sound – and one you can soon experience live When Susan Fancher was invited to perform in ...

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Invented in the early 1840s, the saxophone was a relative latecomer to music—and to jazz. But starting in the mid-1920s, with the rise of the big bands, the instrument slowly but steadily evolved from ...

While playing the piano at the airport, I met another talented saxophonist who unexpectedly joined the performance. What ...

Adolphe Sax made this alto saxophone in 1857, long after he had switched to brass. The sax is still a woodwind instrument, though. Photo courtesy National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota The ...

Cheesy, cool, noisy, sweet – the sax is a versatile beast that has made many great songs even better The saxophone has earned its place in just about every modern music genre. Listen to the earliest ...

In its relatively short life, one golden object has courted an incredible amount of controversy. It has offended ideologues, drawn the ire of dictators, and been outlawed around the world — but it's ...