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

Compared to the trumpet, which dates to 1500 BC, and the flute, which is believed to be between 35,000 and 43,000 years old, the saxophone is a baby. But the sax, which was invented by a Belgian ...

In search of a “wow factor," an increasing number of couples are adding live sax to their receptions — even if the instrument ...

A few seconds past the five-minute mark in "So What," the opening track of Miles Davis's masterpiece album Kind of Blue, an alto sax moves to the front of the mix. The artist behind that solo was ...

The saxophone style heralded by this handsomely packaged, budget-priced four-disc box exists somewhere between jazz and R&B. Spawned most famously by Illinois Jacquet's "Flying Home," a hit for Lionel ...

From the smallest saxophone in the world, the sopranino, to the 6 1/2-foot-tall contrabass sax and everything between, these saxophones are ones you won’t experience by listening to the pep band at a ...

NEW YORK — John Coltrane's saxophone. Dizzy Gillespie's bent trumpet. Lionel Hampton's vibraphone. These were among a treasure trove of 450 pieces of jazz memorabilia that will be auctioned today.