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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

“Strasbourg 82” displays how he shaped a cohesive whole from the voices of musicians mostly decades his junior, and how he nurtured future stars including, here, Mr. Blanchard and alto saxophonist Donald Harrison.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025

“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

This allusive track boasts the album’s most sweeping chorus, anchored by Swift’s mesmeric alto and a masterfully orchestrated rhythm that uses moments of quiet to its advantage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025

Next to an alto she sang alto, by a soprano, soprano.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

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

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

From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 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

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

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper