alto
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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
Immanuel Wilkins’s alto saxophone and Joel Ross’s vibraphone initially function as dual narrators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025
The one Mingus brought to Monterey included pianist Jaki Byard and drummer Dannie Richmond from that previous sextet, along with alto saxophonist Charles McPherson, tenor saxophonist John Handy and trumpeter Lonnie Hillyer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025
Mr. Threadgill assembled his longest-running band, Zooid, in which he plays alto saxophone and flute, specifically to advance this concept.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
Transpose parts up a major sixth for alto sax, and up an octave plus a major sixth for bari sax.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
She remembers opening the windows when the weather got warm, letting the sounds of altos and sopranos and tenors travel down the street.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2023
At Riverside Church, the bass section of the Chorale Le Chateau strongly anchored the fugue, and the altos lent it clarity.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 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
Like other community choirs, we have way more sopranos and altos than tenors and basses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2021
She sorts each of us, sopranos to the right, altos to the left.
From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari
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Music - Introductory
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