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 ...

Most saxophonists play their instruments standing up, but today, Prasant Radhakrishnan is sitting down. His legs are crossed, his back is upright; the saxophone droops like a brass pipe from his mouth ...

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 blast of music heard at the beginning of each episode of "Saturday Night Live." The driving power of Bruce Springsteen's classic "Born to Run." And the famous riff in the jazz classic "Take Five." ...

There is not a single degree of separation between saxophone legend Charles Lloyd and such American music icons as B.B. King, Ornette Coleman and the Grateful Dead. Or, for that matter, between Lloyd ...

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 ...

Anthony Ortega did almost everything imaginable in a music career that stretched over 70 years that included leading a weekly Sunday jam session — into his mid-90s — until his health began to fail in ...

Well known musician/saxophonist and music composer Kavishan Jayasooriya, popularly branded by his stage name ‘Kavee Sax’, has established himself as a prominent figure in the world of music. Born into ...

Jonathan Bagg seems like a modest guy, a little embarrassed to admit that he has groupies. The viola player is one-fourth of the internationally acclaimed Ciompi Quartet, founded over 30 years ago at ...

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 ...