The Harvard Crimson

100 Years of Jazz Saxophone

In the beginning, there was Coleman Hawkins. Coleman Hawkins begat Ben Webster. And Ben Webster begat Lester Young, and Lester Young begat Charlie Parker. And Charlie Parker begat Dexter Gordon, and ...
Los Angeles Times

A surfeit of saxes on tap this week

It’s a splendid week for fans of the jazz saxophone. On Wednesday, tenor saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter celebrates his 70th birthday with a “Life and Music” performance at the Hollywood ...
NPR

Five Titans Of Texas Tenor Sax

When jazz fans talk about the Texas Tenor saxophone sound, they're talking about a sound which is very robust, sometimes raw, and which mixes the musical vocabularies of swing, bebop, blues and ...
San Diego Reader

Warm, dark saxophone sounds

“There are more people playing jazz music at a higher level than ever before in the history of jazz.” That’s Ian Buss’s answer when I ask him about choosing a career playing straight-ahead jazz music ...