axes

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He plays the entire tune with his full arsenal of saxes and turns it from a speech into a song.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

Bill Laswell, Miles’s posthumous remixer, called 1972’s On the Corner “mutant hip-hop” – others have heard dub, pre-punk, drum’n’bass and more in its oceanic, thick-textured, harmony-purged turmoil of multiple keyboards, overdubs, saxes and percussion.

From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2019

Ritter also makes custom horns, like the three saxes he attached so that musician Duke Washington could play them at one time.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 15, 2018

We encountered a zillion local brass bands, including one of schoolkids going crazy on saxes and tubas at Peters Street and Ursulines Avenue.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2017

Getting into the All-City band is a big, big deal, especially for a drummer — because there are six trumpeters, five saxes, four trombones, et cetera, but only two drummers.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick