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RAVE to the mystery neighbor who softly practices jazz on the saxophone after dinner. It sounds like someone unwinding after a long day and the relaxation reaches out between our houses.
The band practices every Tuesday night at Catawba ... He made connections with Joe Glider, the lead alto saxophone player for a hotel band in the Catskills, and Bob was soon taking hourlong ...
Type of saxophone: Saxes come in five basic varieties: Alto, tenor, soprano, bass, and baritone. The tenor is perhaps the jazziest of the bunch, but the alto is the real classic. It is also the ...
Sarah Hanahan is a young alto saxophonist who has always been sure ... but it was the legendary drummer’s saxophone section that Hanahan noticed above all else, inspiring her to pick up the ...
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 ...
Alto Reed, the saxophonist whose signature hooks and swashbuckling stage moves made him a star of Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band, died Wednesday morning of colon cancer. He was 72. Reed, born ...
Adviser nomination: “Lillian is a senior band officer, alto saxophone section leader in Wind Symphony, alto saxophonist in Jazz Ensemble I,” adviser Christopher Fogderud said. “She also ...
Gillam divided the concert into two parts, focusing on classical repertoire for the first half, and playing her soprano saxophone. After intermission, she alternated soprano and alto sax ...
By Barry Singer Lou Donaldson, an alto saxophonist who became part of ... gave him this horn — he didn’t have a horn. Man, such saxophone I never heard in my life. I said, ‘I’m giving ...