Lucas attended a ceremony of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, celebrating their 40th anniversary and received 3 saxophones. Lucas now has soprano saxophone, an alto saxophone, and a travel saxophone.

“He prided himself on his arrangements but he really loved, just loved playing, the saddest part of the last six years of his life was that he wasn’t able to play sax, which was his first love ...

He was a leading voice of the more elemental style that came to be called “hard bop,” an evolution out of the bebop revolution wrought by his inspiration on the alto sax, Charlie Parker.

It sums up the wayward genius of Parker to know that he played the concert using a white plastic alto saxophone, having pawned his favourite brass one. Miles Davis famously said that “you can ...

Sarah Hanahan is a young alto saxophonist who has always been sure ... but it was the legendary drummer’s saxophone section that Hanahan noticed above all else, inspiring her to pick up the ...

Other assignments included being selected to play the lead alto saxophone chair with the West Point Military Academy Band's Jazz Knights, selection for assignment as a Jazz Ensemble Rehearsal ...

APPRAISER: And the year was? GUEST: 1990-ish? APPRAISER: What you have is a Selmer saxophone. Selmer has been, from the beginning, uh, the preeminent brand of saxophones. All the best professional ...

The harmonics of the saxophone concentrate around similar ... Fool around they did: in the twenty years that the Mark VI alto was manufactured, Selmer made at least seventy design changes.

Afrobeat legend Femi Kuti has been given a limited edition of Selmer Paris Alto Supreme 2022 saxophone ahead of his 60th birthday on June 16. The saxophone commemorates the 100th anniversary of ...

Finishing touches and assembly of Selmer's Axos series, a new collection less expensive than the company's other instruments, are completed in China. An alto saxophone costs 3,150 euros ($3,430 ...