As Shabaka Hutchings led a concert tribute to Pharoah Sanders in early December, he returned to a familiar equation: funneling gallons of air through his tenor saxophone, transforming it into a ...

Cecil “Big Jay” McNeely, whose honking tenor saxophone helped define Los Angeles rhythm and blues and set the stage for the rock ’n’ roll explosion of the 1950s, has died.

On December 9, 1964, legendary jazz musician John Coltrane recorded his canonical, four-part suite A Love Supreme in sound engineer Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

Coleman Hawkins: Tenor Saxophone, Front And Center : A Blog Supreme Starting in the 1920s, Hawkins made an afterthought of an instrument into one of the sounds we most identify with jazz. He also ...