A shared love of jazz led author Lesa Cline-Ransome and illustrator James Ransome to discover inventor Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax and the instrument named after him.

Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax lived in Dinant, Belgium in the 1800s. And he was often bored. "So he daydreamed, especially when he should have been paying attention," Cline-Ransome writes in the book.

It took decades—a century even, depending how you count—for Adolphe Sax’s invention to take its place in history. The Belgian instrument maker, born 201 years ago, on Nov. 6, 1814, patented ...

Adolphe Sax's detailed plans for the saxophone, which had its world debut in 1941. Matters came to a head when it was decided to hold a major competition to reform the military bands.

Adolphe Sax was born in Belgium 200 years ago Thursday. As a young man, Sax worked for his father, also an instrument maker. The younger Sax made improvements to the bass clarinet and invented a ...

Orchestras hated him. When Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone in 1841, he sought to combine the subtlety of woodwinds with the power of big brass in an instrument unlike anything the world had ...

Adolphe Sax, born in Belgium on November 6, 1814, was a Belgian musician and inventor who created the much-loved saxophone. Sax invented several instruments including the saxophone which was ...

Friday’s Google Doodle marks what would have been legendary instrument maker Adolphe Sax’s 201st birthday. Born on Nov. 6, 1814, in Belgium, Sax grew up under the stewardship of his fellow ...

1846: Emerging from his Paris workshop, musician-inventor Adolphe Sax files 14 patents for an instrument destined to revolutionize American music nearly a century later. His new invention: the ...

Since the 1840s, when the saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax, the wind instrument named after him has become a key component of jazz groups ranging from big bands to small combos.

A shared love of jazz led author Lesa Cline-Ransome and illustrator James Ransome to discover inventor Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax and the instrument named after him.

A shared love of jazz led author Lesa Cline-Ransome and illustrator James Ransome to discover inventor Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax and the instrument named after him.