Sonny Rollins, who has died aged 95, was, as the title of his most celebrated album declared, a Saxophone Colossus.

His death marks the physical and "biographical" end of an era that began with the founding of bebop in New York during the ...

Tutored by Thelonious Monk, the Harlem native came of age with bebop and created a succession of improvisational masterpieces ...

The Harlem-born tenor saxophonist helped define bebop, shaped generations of music and remained one of jazz’s most ...

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 legendary jazz saxophonist, who revolutionized the art of improvisation, died Monday at his home in Woodstock, N.Y.

Sonny Rollins was one of the last living greats of the bebop era and one of the most influential saxophonists of his time.

When tenor saxophonist John Coltrane recorded his composition "Giant Steps" in 1959, he created something that changed the way musicians thought about improvisation and harmony. Decades earlier, the ...

Coleman Hawkins, known as "The Hawk" or "Bean," basically invented tenor sax as we know it, all the way down to Bill Clinton playing his way to office. After making many recordings with various groups ...

1846: Emerging from his Paris workshop, musician-inventor Adolphe Sax files 14 patents for an instrument destined to revolutionize American music nearly a century later. His new invention: the ...