A pervasive tune on TikTok is used to underscore uh-oh moments. It comes from the 1991 film “Boyz N the Hood.” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Michelle Bracken/FOR THE WASHINGTON POST) Sonny Rollins, the "saxophone colossus" who was widely considered America's greatest ...

The ensemble’s first performance inside the Chapel sparked a musical mission rooted in history, place, and sound – and one you can soon experience live When Susan Fancher was invited to perform in ...

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 ...

Invented in the early 1840s, the saxophone was a relative latecomer to music—and to jazz. But starting in the mid-1920s, with the rise of the big bands, the instrument slowly but steadily evolved from ...

Michael Segell discusses his new book, The Devil's Horn. It follows the history of the saxophone through more than 160 years as a controversial classical, jazz and rock instrument. HANSEN: The ...

A 1978 hit has been ranked as having the greatest saxophone solo of all time, thanks to one unforgettable musical moment. Even though other instruments, like guitars, drums, and bass, get more ...

1846: Emerging from his Paris workshop, musician-inventor Adolphe Sax files 14 patents for an instrument destined to revolutionize American music nearly a century later. His new invention: the ...

Many of today’s symphony orchestra instruments have been around for centuries. The violin, for instance, dates to the 1500s and as a result has an enormous repertoire spanning 450 years. The saxophone ...

Sonny Rollins, the legendary jazz saxophonist who collaborated with everyone from Coleman Hawkins to the Rolling Stones, has died.