West coast sax maven Vinny Golia brings out a set where he plays the tubax, a new type of contrabass saxophone designed by German inventor Benedict Eppelsheim. A standard contrabass saxophone is a ...

When Richard Wagner began composing "The Ring of the Nibelung," his visionary opera cycle, he became dissatisfied with a particular musical theme. The solution, he decided, was not to rewrite the ...

Duke Ellington is quoted anecdotally as saying there are only two kinds of music—good and bad. It's quite possible that, after experiencing Under the Spell of Spain, there might be yet another ...