Almost no other instrument seems so synonymous with jazz as the sax. Listen to some classic alto playing from Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt and more greats. Credit...Illustration by ...

Sarah Hanahan is a young alto saxophonist who has always been sure of her connection to the instrument. "I remember playing it for the first time," she says. "I never squeaked and squawked on it. I ...

Did you know Debussy wrote a solo orchestral piece for saxophone? One of the youngest instruments of the classical world is the saxophone. Although often heavily associated with jazz, the saxophone ...

A player of impeccable technique and a mainstay of the Blue Note label, he recorded constantly as both a leader and a sideman beginning in 1952. By Barry Singer Lou Donaldson, an alto saxophonist who ...