The tragic news came down on December 30th that Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band sax player Alto Reed died at the age of 72 after a battle with stage 4 colon cancer. “Alto has been a part of ...

Alto Reed, who played saxophone for multiplatinum ... Reed was known for his showmanship onstage and his signature sax riff on “Turn the Page.” He first started playing with Seger in the ...

"I first starting playing with Alto in 1971. He was amazing – he could play just about anything…he was funky, could scat and play tenor sax and alto sax at the same time." Born Thomas Neal ...

Adolphe Sax made this alto saxophone in 1857, long after he had switched to brass. The sax is still a woodwind instrument, though. Photo courtesy National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota Th ...

Sarah Hanahan is a young alto saxophonist who has always been sure of her connection to the instrument. “I remember playing it for the first time,” she says. “I never squeaked and squawked ...

He was a leading voice of the more elemental style that came to be called “hard bop,” an evolution out of the bebop revolution wrought by his inspiration on the alto sax, Charlie Parker.