Back in 2009, saxophonist Ashu — he only goes by the one name — performed the world premiere of Arizona Friends of Chamber Music’s commissioned saxophone piece by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen ...

*Detroit, Mich. – Multi-Platinum and Grammy nominated saxophonist and flautist, Najee, has pushed the envelope in creating epic music in R&B and jazz for more than three decades. Now, the legendary ...

The alto saxophone suggestively whispered my name as I walked past it inside the AmeriPawn store. I turned around to see if it was just playing with my head. I haven’t played a sax since my teenage ...

Any musical performance titled “Volcanic Ash” creates huge shoes for it to fill from the get-go. No one expects the musicians to engulf the audience in pyroclastic flow, but the audience might expect ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Sax man Dave Koz typically doesn’t overanalyze things, not really. He just goes with his gut. That being said, he does “get” why the instrument he’ll bring to Playhouse Square’s ...

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 ...

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It’s Monday at 9:17 a.m. on the intersection of the Undergraduate Library to the Main Quad. As students scramble to their morning classes, the sound of a deep, compelling saxophone leaves some smiling ...

Drawn to an instrument that sounded exotic to him, he became one of the most prominent classical musicians in India. By Giovanni Russonello Kadri Gopalnath was a youngster growing up in a village in ...

Sam Fine, who played the saxophone and taught at Towson University after leaving a successful career in information technology, died of pancreatic cancer Sunday at Gilchrist Hospice Towson. The ...