Tenor Saxophone
It was largely through jazz that the true nature of the B-flat tenor saxophone has been revealed. In
particular by Coleman Hawkins, a figure often present at the
forefront of major musical innovation, and to whom the history of jazz owes much. Hawkins popularized this instrument through the interpretation of his celebrated Body and Soul in October 1939. On the classical side, it can be found in Symphony No 4 from Vaughan Williams, and in Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kije and Romeo and Juliet.