For a time Wednesday evening, Adolphe Sax came back to life at San Clemente’s Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens. Rob Verdi, a saxophone player and collector, and his band Saxophobia presented ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

YORBA LINDA Rob Verdi’s obsession with collecting rare saxophones started with an instrument that he didn’t believe existed. It was 1985 and Verdi, a jazz musician, was playing a gig in Yuma, Arizona.

NAMPA — Audiences sit up and take notice when Rob Verdi strolls on stage lugging his six-and-a-half-foot tall contrabass saxophone. “When people see the instrument they know something funny is about ...