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 ...

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. We worked with Alto ...

In advance of his appearance on JazzSet this week, NPR Music asked Wilson to give an introduction to the orneriest of horns, the alto sax. --ed. While the tenor saxophone is the most popular ...

The ovation for Banks’ expressive playing was such that he returned to the stage for an encore, Sarabande, by Johann ...