If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Deciding to learn how to play the saxophone is one thing.

There’s a move perfected by middle school orchestra members — mainly clarinet players, in my experience — that emerges directly after a musician makes a jarring mistake during a performance. The ...

The soprano saxophone, unlike the clarinet or tenor sax, was never popular in jazz until Sidney Bechet, who was the first jazz musician to use it exclusively. A contemporary of Louis Armstrong and ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Traveling with your saxophone should be as smooth as the ...

The British musician is an artist in residence at Winter Jazzfest in New York this week, playing an instrument group that he first picked up in 2019. By Hugh Morris Reporting from London As Shabaka ...

This article was originally published in Death and Taxes on February 24, 2012. The saxophone is an instrument that has run through an ongoing cycle of cool and uncool dating back to the birth of rock ...

After a former mayor spent $144,000 of public money on the synthetic saxophone, it became the centerpiece of a Kansas City institution. A reissued recording of the instrument, played by our greatest ...

Tosan Arugba plays the saxophone almost note perfect --- but he plays it differently from how you might expect. The 31-year-old has been dubbed the human saxophone because he makes a sound remarkably ...

I pay special tribute to my dear friend Ron McNair - astronaut, musician, and pioneer - who was due to perform a saxophone ...

The 28th annual Guthman Musical Instrument Competition includes a Fiddle-Henge, a modified bicycle wheel, and a 'Demon Box.' ...

When the Nationals traded Jose A. Ferrer to the Mariners for Harry Ford on Dec. 6, 2025, the teams exchanged more than a ...