Rudresh Mahanthappa's Kinsmen blends South Asian music with American jazz. The jazz saxophonist says his inspiration to explore Indian music on the saxophone came from a CD his brother gave him as a ...

Kinsmen is his collaboration with Kadri Gopalnath, a living legend of Indian music known as The Emperor of the Saxophone, a true innovator in bringing the saxophone to Indian classical music. The ...

Drawn to an instrument that sounded exotic to him, he became one of the most prominent classical musicians in India. By Giovanni Russonello Kadri Gopalnath was a youngster growing up in a village in ...

Brooks revealed that about a year and a half ago, Pt. Bhatt was in a serious car accident, suffering multiple fractures to ...

The Lahore Arts Council, Alhamra, continues its mission to preserve and promote classical musical instruments by curating soulful concerts that bridge cultures and generations. In this spirit, Alhamra ...

In the 1840s, Adolphe Saxe, a Belgian instrument maker, invented an instrument with the flexibility of the strings, the power of the brass and the variety of tone quality of the woodwinds. Quickly ...