Sher Music Co. has recently released a landmark book by New York jazz heavyweight, Tim Armacost entitled The Jazz Saxophone Book. This book was written for all students of jazz, from relative ...
Make SFGATE a preferred source so your search results prioritize writing by actual people, not AI. Add Preferred Source It's a primal scene in the personal myth of many a saxophonist: that first ...
Michael Segell discusses his new book, The Devil's Horn. It follows the history of the saxophone through more than 160 years as a controversial classical, jazz and rock instrument. HANSEN: The ...
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 ...
Lesa Cline-Ransome and James Ransome met at a "Purple Rain" party when they were 19 — sophomores at Pratt Institute. "I asked her to dance, and we've been dancing together ever since," says James ...
THE WORLD IN THE EVENING (301 pp.)—Christopher Isherwood—Random House ($3.50). The World in the Evening starts with a racket at a drunken Hollywood party; the sound comes from the hero’s fists ...