Celebrates new and experimental music for the saxophone right here in the QCA! Randall Hall, John Sampen and Mark Bunce joined Our Quad Cities News with details on the Shockingly Modern Saxophone ...

Did you know Debussy wrote a solo orchestral piece for saxophone? One of the youngest instruments of the classical world is the saxophone. Although often heavily associated with jazz, the saxophone ...

The saxophone can be as beautifully melodic as a violin or a clarinet – but the classical music world hasn’t always seen eye to eye with the instrument. We asked saxophonist Jess Gillam to explain why ...

Studio musicians contribute immeasurably, and often anonymously, to the fabric of pop music, making it a rarity when one rises above that anonymity the way saxophonist Raphael Ravenscroft did as the ...

The Lamont Saxophone Quartet plays in the CPR Performance Studio. The Lamont Saxophone Quartet plays a concert looking at 100 years of sax quartet music on Friday at the Newman Center. Art Bouton, who ...

When Spain's Ramon Mañas moved to Berlin to study music, he started learning the saxophone. But as the sax is a loud instrument, he couldn't do so when and where he liked. This led to the development ...

The first recording by Wesleyan University music Professor Anthony Braxton, “Three Compositions of New Jazz,” was issued by Delmark Records in 1968. The alto saxophonist-composer had studied at the ...

British saxophonist Jess Gillam lit up the Ordway Concert Hall this week in St. Paul, in the first saxophone recital presented by the Schubert Club’s “International Artist Series.” Performing with ...

The Quadraphonnes, Portland’s all-women sax quartet, will perform the music of the eccentric artist Moondog at the Alberta Rose Theater on March 7. Moondog was a blind street musician in New York City ...

An unusual piece makes its UK premiere in this season's BBC Proms - John Adams' Saxophone Concerto. While the concerto is long-established in classical music, the saxophone - 175 years after it was ...