alto

Rollins’ first instrument, at age 13, was the alto saxophone, followed by the tenor when he was in his mid-teens.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

But to see instrumentalists like Lakecia Benjamin who has really come to the forefront as an alto saxophonist and to see her get Grammy nominations, that’s something that, for me, is huge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026

Yvonne Lanauze’s vocal is modest, but the track blossoms in the instrumental solos—Hodges’s alto sax singing with quiet poise, and Tyree Glenn’s trombone talking with emotion and eloquence, raising the whole performance to another level.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

Immanuel Wilkins’s alto saxophone and Joel Ross’s vibraphone initially function as dual narrators.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025

I recognize one of Mustafa’s friends playing the alto saxophone and a boy from his basketball team strumming the bass guitar.

From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan

But for my fellow altos, the melodic range of female alto songs and male tenor songs very closely overlaps; for example, Rihanna and Queen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

"But if you notice, they are all from melodic lines and they move in intervals that can be taken by sopranos, altos, tenors and basses, and this is not possible to do like that."

From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2021

“Pattern-mixing is a chorus, and you need altos, sopranos, tenors and a bass line,” Luckett says.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2021

For this year’s service, he rewrote bass and tenor parts for altos and sopranos so it would work with the choristers who agreed to sing.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2020

After a shaky start, the altos started harmonizing mellow and deep.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper