The soprano saxophone has never been a dominant instrument in mainstream jazz, but it's been in the mix since the beginning. Take a quick tour of the soprano sax throughout jazz history with the help ...

Sam Newsome's Blue Soliloquy is available at CD Baby. Soprano saxophone can be an unforgiving instrument. It's hard to play in tune, and many players get a pinched or nasal tone like it has a bad cold ...

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 ...

Steve Lacy, a leading soprano saxophonist in the modern era of jazz and one of the few jazz musicians awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called “genius grant,” has died. He was 69. Lacy died ...

You can go a long time in Tacoma without hearing a classical saxophone soloist, then you get two on the same weekend. On Saturday, Symphony Tacoma brings Australian saxophone star Amy Dickson, who’ll ...

To an aspiring young singer, the notion of a career spent mainly in prominent European opera houses and concert halls no doubt sounds full of rewards and excitement. Singers who actually live that way ...