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unusual facts about alto saxophone



Carlos Ward

Carlos Ward (born May 1, 1940 in Ancón, Panama) is a jazz alto saxophonist and flautist.

George Mraz

George Mraz (born Jiří Mráz on 9 September 1944 in Písek, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, now Czech Republic) is a jazz bassist and alto saxophonist.

Jim Bob Floyd

:# Allen Strange – Sleeping Beauty (1988-92), for amplified violin and computer-generated sounds — performed by Debra Richtmeyer (alto saxophone)

John Handy

John Richard Handy III (born February 3, 1933, in Dallas, Texas) is an American jazz musician most commonly associated with the alto saxophone, although he also plays tenor and baritone saxophone, saxello, clarinet, oboe, and sings.

Major sixth

A major sixth is also used in transposing music to E-flat instruments, like the alto clarinet, alto saxophone, E-flat tuba, trumpet and horn (instrument) when in E-flat as a written C sounds like E-flat on those instruments.

Music Land

Across the Sea of Discord, the Isle of Jazz is a jazz-themed kingdom alive with hot jazz music and dancing, but the prince (an alto saxophone) takes little interest in it.

William Bolcom

He has also composed concertos such as Lyric Concerto for Flute and Orchestra for James Galway, the Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra for Sergiu Luca, the Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra for Stanley Drucker, and Concert Suite for alto saxophone and band, composed for University of Michigan professor Donald Sinta in 1998.


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Abe Aaron

Early in the 1940s he left this group to play alto saxophone in the big band of Jack Teagarden.

Carol Sudhalter

Sudhalter grew up in a musical family: Her father Albert played the alto saxophone in the New England area with the bands of Herbie Marsh, Eddy Duchin, Bobby Hackett and others.

Greatest Hits of the 20th Century

Jeff Coffin - Soprano Saxophone (tracks 9, 10), Alto Saxophone (track 7), Tenor Saxophone (track 10)

Jaga Jazzist

Jørgen Munkeby - Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Alto Flute, Bass Clarinet, Keyboards (1995-2002)

Jews with Horns

Matt Darriau - alto saxophone (2, 15), backing vocals (4)

Kurzwellen

The Negative Band (Michael Fink, percussion; Earl Howard, alto saxophone; Denman Maroney, piano; David Simons, percussion; Joseph Paul Taylor, synthesizer; Jonathan Weisberger, filter and sound direction).

Peanuts Hucko

When he visited Tokyo, Japan, as the lead alto saxophone player of Benny Goodman's Orchestra in January, 1951, he listened to Japanese famous jazz clarinet player Shoji Suzuki and his Rhythm Aces playing.

Quintet

This concert took place against all odds: Bud Powell was drunk; Charlie Parker, identified as "Charlie Chan" in the original notes, played on a plastic alto saxophone; and Dizzy Gillespie would disappear offstage to check on the status of the first Rocky Marciano-Jersey Joe Walcott heavyweight championship match.

Thanks to My Eyes

Flute (C Flute, bass Flute and Piccolo), Recorder (sopranino Recorder, soprano Recorder, tenor Recorder, bass Recorder and Paetzold contrabass Recorder in F), Clarinet (Clarinet in Bb, bass Clarinet in Bb and contrabass Clarinet in Bb), Saxophone (soprano Saxophone, alto Saxophone and Eb Tubax), Trumpet in C (doubling Flugelhorn), Trombone, Percussion, Accordion, Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Contrabass, Electronics.

The Majesty of the Blues

The first two selections on the album are played by the Wynton Marsalis Sextet, including in addition to Marsalis Marcus Roberts, piano; Todd Williams, tenor and soprano saxophone; Wessell Anderson, alto saxophone; Reginald Veal, string bass; and Herlin Riley, drums.

Vertical Form VI

Lennart Åberg, Bernet Rosengren - tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute