Sep 5th, 2008 · The quintessential American crooner, Tony Bennett is known around the world for his mellow tenor and swinging bel canto style. Bennett talks about his love of painting, his favorite songwriters and the significance of American popular song on this program from 2004.
Jul 29th, 2008 · Dee Dee Bridgewater says the tenor saxophonist was the "epitome of a bygone era of legendary jazz musicians — dapper, suave, debonair, classy, hip, and he could tell a mean joke." Bridgewater and pianist Michael Weiss celebrate Johnny Griffin's life.
Jul 21st, 2008 · Fresh Air's jazz critic has a listen to a re-issue of The Hawk Flies High, the 1957 album from tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins — who's often credited with legitimizing that instrument in the jazz world.
Jul 10th, 2008 · Originally founded and led by tenor saxophonist Joshua Redman, the SF Jazz Collective plays modern music that demonstrates jazz's status as a living, ever-changing, ever-developing art. The all-star group plays a concert from the Chicago Symphony Center.
Jun 18th, 2008 · The most influential jazz musician after bebop, the tenor saxophonist nurtured a career marked by rapid growth in improvisational technique and ideas. By the late 1950s, he had already produced his first masterpieces.
Jun 12th, 2008 · Operatic tenor Wayne Conner was an classical-music radio personality and a teacher at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Academy of Vocal Arts and Peabody conservatory. For 30 years, he also produced and hosted WHYY's "Singer's World" and "Collector's Corner." Connor died May 9 of liver cancer at the age of 79.
Apr 27th, 2008 · Rolando Villazon's new CD Cielo e Mar celebrates the tenor's return to opera. He took a five-month hiatus after his voice began to falter.
Apr 23rd, 2008 · There is an unofficial moratorium on taking encores at New York's Metropolitan Opera. But tenor Juan Diego Florez broke the 14-year old ban Monday night singing 18 high Cs back to back.