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This article was originally published in Death and Taxes on February 24, 2012. The saxophone is an instrument that has run through an ongoing cycle of cool and uncool dating back to the birth of rock ...

On this day in 1997, smooth jazz torchbearer Kenny G tooted his own horn, earning a page in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest note held on the saxophone. “We never had a category like ...

Adolphe Sax made this alto saxophone in 1857, long after he had switched to brass. The sax is still a woodwind instrument, though. Photo courtesy National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota The ...