Rather surprisingly, "Body And Soul" also became a hit record, maintaining its popularity on jukeboxes well into the 1950s. Not bad for an instrumental that only briefly — and very ...

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 ...

The inventor of the saxophone was Adolphe Sax and his wonderful instruments has blessed us jazz cans a millions times over. This week’s Rhythm Planet features just a few great tenor sax solos. Not ...

The saxophone market also stabilized into the baritone, tenor, alto and soprano range that’s popular today. But it wasn’t until the early 1920s that the saxophone became known as a serious ...

Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins was one of the two tenor saxophone titans, with Coltrane, of the '50s and '60s. His album title Saxophone Colossus (OJC, 1956) was titled quite accurately! His mother was ...