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Rumours of a curse have followed the saxophone ever since; something examined in Michael Segell’s 2006 book The Devil’s Horn, and expanded to wildly entertaining effect in Weinstein’s film ...
Just 10 years after Sax completed the first prototype of the saxophone in 1843, the shining horn had traveled all over the U.S. and throughout Europe. Music would never be the same again.
The 85-year-old is among many jazz giants who have used the Mark VI as their saxophone of choice, including Dexter Gordon, Ornette Coleman, Joe Henderson, Benny Golson, and Wayne Shorter. The list ...
The saxophone in its several shapely forms -- including alto, tenor, baritone and soprano -- has been luring disciples in this sirenlike manner ever since its invention around 1840 by Adolphe Sax ...
The Saxophone: 8 Songs That Show Off Rock's Underappreciated Horn Cory Garcia June 18, 2012 1:00PM ...
The Half King 505 West 23rd Street, New York City (just west of 10th Avenue) Monday, October 10, 2005, 6:30pm In The Devil's Horn, Segell traces the 160-year history of the saxophone a horn that ...
The horn, a double-soprano saxophone, may one day reinvigorate jazz- saxophone music much the way Clarence Clemons boosted Bruce Springsteen’s when he joined the E Street Band in 1972.
THE FAMED DISTIN FAMILY; CAREER OF THE GREAT HORN AND SAXOPHONE QUINTET. Share full article Aug. 7, 1881 The New York Times Archives ...