alto
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He also admired alto saxophonist and R&B pioneer Louis Jordan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 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
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
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
"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
“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
I forfeit the solo to Anna Muller—whom Carissimi could never love—and am moved into the altos.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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