I left this concert with a light step, buoyed by the artistry of Claude Delangle, who combined technical wizardry on the alto and soprano saxophones with taste, grace and a French soul. Jacques ...

On Dec. 17, 1951, Sonny Rollins entered a studio for his first session as bandleader. The tenor saxophonist, then 21 years old, had already recorded with the likes of Miles Davis. Within days, and for ...

Tokyo-born composer Takashi Yoshimatsu can’t claim the international reputation of compatriots Joe Hisaishi (of Studio Ghibli fame) or Toshio Hosokawa, but that may be changing soon. Among his ...

In the 1840s, Adolphe Sax revolutionized music with a new instrument — just not in the way he expected. Somewhere between brass and woodwind, his saxophone was designed for symphonic playing. But when ...

The composer Zhou Long is one of the heroes of contemporary Chinese music. Injured by the rural labour he was forced into during the Cultural Revolution, he extracted something good from that ...