alto

Mr. Threadgill, who plays alto saxophone and flute and is a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, first assembled this band 25 years ago to further a compositional strategy that is singular and yet invites improvised collaboration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Hearing Hawkins’s recording of “Body and Soul” as a fourth-grader had been a turning point for Rollins musically and eventually lead him to switch from alto to tenor saxophone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025

Her emotive alto would soon carry well beyond Brazil’s borders; the band landed a coveted gig for NPR’s Tiny Desk series in 2018.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025

The viola's song is in a language no one knows; it reads from the alto clef, not the treble.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

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

All but two of the singers are, be they women or male countertenors, are sopranos or altos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

"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

“And she was like, ‘Yeah, you’ve got to represent for all the altos and all the low female singers.’

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2020

There were girls with squeaky voices or soft altos, plump girls and thin ones, babyish girls who wore heart lockets and girls who were old before their time and worked as secretaries in insurance firms.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides