Saxophone

Entertainment / Music / Saxophone: A woodwind instrument made of metal and sounded with a single reed: the saxophone is a more recent instrument addition to the orchestra.
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Big Band

Entertainment / Music / Big Band: Large jazz ensemble popular in 1930s and 1940s, featuring sections of trumpets, trombones, saxophones (and other woodwinds), and rhythm instruments (piano, double bass, drums and guitar). MORE

Woodwind

Entertainment / Music / Woodwind: The woodwind family is less homogeneous in construction and sound production than the strings: it includes the piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet and bassoon. The saxophone is a more recent MORE

Jazz Band

Entertainment / Music / Jazz Band: Instrumental ensemble made up of reeds (saxophones and clarinets), brass (trumpets and trombones), and rhythm sections (percussion, piano, double bass and sometimes guitar). MORE

Rhythm And Blues

Entertainment / Music / Rhythm And Blues: Popular African-American music style of the 1940s through 1960s featuring a solo singer accompanied by a small instrumental ensemble (piano, guitar, acoustic bass, drums, tenor saxophone), driving rhy MORE

New Orleans Jazz

Entertainment / Music / New Orleans Jazz: Early jazz style characterized by multiple improvisations in an ensemble of cornet (or trumpet), clarinet (or saxophone), trombone, piano, string bass (or tuba), banjo (or guitar) and drums: repertory MORE

Timbre

Technology / Home Audio / Timbre: Pronounced 'tam-burr.' The quality of a sound related to its harmonic structure. Timbre is what gives a voice or instrument its sonic signature ?€” for instance, why a trumpet and a saxophone soun MORE