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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

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

“Chulahoma” is riveting for Mr. Sewell’s lines, which are alternately gritty and soaring, and for Mr. Lloyd’s playing, which hints at the blues-based melodicism of yet another dear, departed friend, the alto saxophonist Ornette Coleman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

I was in marching band when I was in high school, I played the alto saxophone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025

She began singing in her strong, clear alto.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee

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

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

Figure 2.9: Voices are as individual as faces; some altos will have a narrower or wider range, or the sweetest and most powerful part of their range in a different place than other altos.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones