The prices of Selmer's saxophones range from 2,700 to 20,000 euros, with an average of 4,500 euros. Coltrane played a Selmer Mark VI tenor on his classic "A Love Supreme" album.

On December 9, 1964, legendary jazz musician John Coltrane recorded his canonical, four-part suite A Love Supreme in sound engineer Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

The Selmer Mark VI and its reign emerged from the chaos of World War II. While quality saxophones made by domestic manufacturers were plentiful in the United States in the swing era of the ’20s ...

This Selmer Mark VI tenor saxophone was one of three instruments that John Coltrane played to reinvent himself—and Jazz music Erica R. Hendry December 15, 2014 ...

Its saxophones are played by the most famous jazzmen around the world and have even been sent into space, but growing competition from China pushed the French family company Henri Selmer Paris to ...