You might be surprised to find out just how often the saxophone is used in classic rock. Not just relegated to jazz or big band music, there are sax players who roll and growl, swoop and dive on their ...

Alto Reed, longtime saxophonist for Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band, has passed away from colon cancer. He was 72. "Our hearts are deeply broken by this enormous loss, but also filled with gratitude as ...

The saxophone isn't the first instrument you'd think of when you're pondering which piece of classical music to put on. If it's sax you're after, you'd be more likely to reach for the jazz of Stan ...

Surf Ride gathers together three early Art Pepper sessions from 1952, 1953, and 1954; an era when he was refining his voice ...

Sarah Hanahan is a young alto saxophonist who has always been sure of her connection to the instrument. "I remember playing it for the first time," she says. "I never squeaked and squawked on it. I ...

Alto Reed, who played saxophone for multiplatinum Bob Seger‘s Silver Bullet Band for nearly half a century, died Wednesday of colon cancer. He was 72. Seger posted a note about his “lifelong friend ...

Woods is Phil Woods, disciple of bebop saxophone pioneer Charlie Parker, and his Saxophone Sonata does a fine job of embedding inside composed music something of the spontaneous soul of jazz ...

Andrew Woolfolk, the longtime saxophonist for Earth, Wind, and Fire and reliable hired gun for a slew of other artists, died Sunday, April 24. He was 71. Earth, Wind, and Fire vocalist Phililp Bailey ...

The word "iconic" is sorely overused, but if there's a sax riff in rock history that deserves it, it's probably the one that Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" its palpable air of melancholy cool. Adam ...

The former leader of the free world poured beer on Sax Gordon's shoes. When you're on the road, playing gigs everywhere from Nantucket to Slovenia, incidents like this are bound to happen. In this ...