Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Adolphe Sax, pictured ca. 1842 Rothman is managing editor at TIME. It took decades—a century even, depending how you count—for Adolphe Sax’s invention to take its ...

Benny Carter at the Apollo Theater in Harlem circa 1946. Photo by William Gottlieb. Courtesy the Library of Congress Joann Stevens is the program manager for Jazz Appreciation Month and a regular ...

Studio musicians contribute immeasurably, and often anonymously, to the fabric of pop music, making it a rarity when one rises above that anonymity the way saxophonist Raphael Ravenscroft did as the ...

It is a tiresome, but unfortunately largely accurate, cliché, that it is impossible to name 10 famous Belgians. Jacques Brel, René Magritte and Hergé may spring fairly easily to mind but a more ...

Blowhards: New players such as Brendan Mills, left, and Lewis Evans, centre are bringing the saxophone back in from the cold (Getty/iStock/The Independent) Get the inside track from Roisin O'Connor ...

The saxophone is having a moment again. That golden, smooth sound is popping up everywhere, and people can't get enough of it. It's showing up at weddings, rooftop parties, and live shows. The vibe is ...

To mark the bicentenary of the birth of its inventor, Adolph Sax - surely the most famous musical-instrument maker Belgium has ever produced - we present 10 of his instrument’s finest classical ...

Mid-tempo fare has been creeping up the charts in the last year—the laidback breeziness of “Happy” is one example, the foreboding “Dark Horse” is another. Most recently, Jason Derulo’s “Talk Dirty”—a ...

As half of the most successful duo of all time, Hall And Oates, John Oates has seen a hell of a lot in the music industry. So when he says something is new and exciting for him, you know it is ...