If its title didn’t already tip you off, “Tenor Time” — out on jazz label AFAR Music this Friday — declares what it’s all about from the very first track. An uptempo rhythm section, flavored with sly ...

In the old days, to make a splash in the big (Apple) pond you had to be a tenor titan. Nowadays you'd better make it titanium. Consider the daunting legacy of John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Joe ...

When jazz fans talk about the Texas Tenor saxophone sound, they're talking about a sound which is very robust, sometimes raw, and which mixes the musical vocabularies of swing, bebop, blues and R&B.

If any jazz performance from the 1980s could be thought of as a landmark statement, Joe Henderson's live State of the Tenor sessions would surely float to the top of the list. Recorded at the Village ...

When you put a baritone mouthpiece on a tenor saxophone and play the thing loud with a bluesy sound it’s known as the Texas tenor style. Lots of great musicians, including Lester Young, Coleman ...