Type of saxophone: Saxes come in five basic varieties: Alto, tenor, soprano, bass, and baritone. The tenor is perhaps the jazziest of the bunch, but the alto is the real classic. It is also the ...

When jazz fans talk about the Texas Tenor saxophone sound, they're talking about a sound which is very robust, sometimes raw, and which mixes the musical vocabularies of swing, bebop, blues and R&B.

Ken Carter is sooooo deft with the saxophone he plays it with one hand ... music store owner in Hamden who had designed a couple of tenor saxes for people with disabilities.

Decades earlier, the man who took the first leaps and bounds with the tenor sax in jazz was Coleman Hawkins. Before Hawkins arrived on the jazz scene with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra in the ...