Is the saxophone played only in Jazz music?

Sting, Dave Matthews, John Mayer, Bruce Springsteen, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Billie Joel, Lou Reed, Foreigner, Steely Dan, R.E.M., INXS, Radiohead, the Cure, Bon Iver...in fact google "Saxophones in indie music" and you'll see they've been used quite a lot in the last few years in that genre. read more

Saxophone is now played in lots of musics all over the world. American, latino, european, european traditionnal, asia and traditionnal asia, traditionnal indian music. And it course classical contemporary and expérimental music of the 20th century. read more

In summary, before jazz was invented, the United States of America had symphony orchestras, wind orchestras, military bands, and polka bands, and saxophones were commonplace. When jazz appeared, it used the instruments that were already there, and the saxophones were among them. read more

In jazz you can see many different individual approaches to playing the saxophone that you will never see in classical music or symphonic band music because the nature of those musics is to play and blend in the ensemble as a uniform member. read more