But he envisioned that the saxophone would have two uses: in military ensembles and also orchestrally.
And that legacy seems to have followed the saxophone right up until the present.
His father, Kidd Jordan, plays avant-garde saxophone, while his mother is a classical pianist.
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1930, Coleman received his first saxophone at age 14.
And when the heck did that saxophone player show up playing "Auld Lang Syne"?
Old friends say that Mr. Loughner began high school a normal kid who excelled at the saxophone.
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Saxophone player Denis Payton died in December 2006 and singer and keyboard player Mike Smith died in 2008.
"In 1962, Shorter emerged a boy wonder both on tenor saxophone and as a composer, " Hurst says.
He is an honor roll student, saxophone player, basketball player and law-abiding teenager.
Mr. SEGELL: Well, that's the saxophone for you, controversial right from the start.
And I thought to Tommy, the original has a saxophone solo on it.
He is also an avid saxophone player and has even written a book.
He arrived from the West Coast with a plastic saxophone and a style that caused a firestorm of debate.
The lower notes of his saxophone embody a powerful, penetrating edge, while the upper ones can be floating and fragile.
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Not because of what was depicted on the screen, but because of the so-called carnal, voluptuous sound of the saxophone.
And while six months of incarceration have affected the jazz lover's level of saxophone playing, he doesn't hold a grudge.
His big break came nearly 50 years ago, when saxophone great John Coltrane asked him to join his quartet.
They also made appearances at two late-night events in Los Angeles, including one for the Saxophone Club of young Democrats.
But interestingly, the saxophone ended up empowering three very disenfranchised groups in America and they would be African-Americans, women and children.
The saxophone is so flexible in its sound, it can sound like an oboe, a bassoon, a French horn, a flute.
David Sanborn was Bowie's main musical foil which means his saxophone playing dominates this excursion into what Bowie called "plastic soul".
His father was a musician with the Glen Gray Casa Loma Orchestra Sy Axman, who played tenor saxophone beside Glen Gray's alto.
Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Clemons began playing saxophone at the age of nine after receiving one unexpectedly from his father for Christmas.
Kraft discovered as much in 1989, when it brought out saxophone macaroni.
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He locked himself in a downtown Los Angeles loft with a saxophone to prepare for his role as Charlie Parker in Bird.
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NPR's Roy Hurst has this profile of the legendary tenor saxophone player.
The farther out the guy got into the ether, the farther he had to climb up the musical scales in the saxophone family.
In 1956, he released his landmark album Saxophone Colossus, which is widely considered to rank among the finest jazz discs of the era.
Sometimes that will lead him to pick up the saxophone an instrument on which he professes to be an amateur or to them both singing.
It was during her time there that she began singing in church choirs and taking piano lessons, even trying out the alto saxophone.
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