Sentence examples for alto player from inspiring English sources

This alto player has a tone like iron and charges from 0 to 80 in about four seconds.

The band includes the saxophonist Brad Leali, a bright-toned alto player who's been impressive lately in Eric Reed's septet.

His patience and oblique inventiveness sometimes makes his partners here simply sound over the top - but he blends beautifully with the alto player Willie Smith.

The swing ballad Hold on Me was cushioned by muted trumpet sounds, and gradually punctuated by glowing riffs and a long vocals/sax dialogue between Spalding and the thrillingly soulful alto player Tia Fuller.

Mr. Iyer, a hard-driving vamp pianist with high concepts, and Mr. Mahanthappa, an alto player with a tone like iron, have recently been making their names playing tough, rhythmically complicated, challenging music.

There's an undercurrent of Cuban music — so in Buddy Pipp's Highlifers, for instance, represented here five times though I'd like more, you hear a mixture of Ghainan, Cuban and jazz (the saxophonist was the alto player Joe Harriott, who went on to become one of the heroes of English free improvisation).

From the moment they left the team bus, Palo Alto players took abuse from fans and players.

At his best, Mr. Harrison is one of the great alto players of our time, and his music gently serves forth theories on the permeability of black music, mixing together rhythms from the Caribbean and funk and jazz history.

The bridegroom, also 29, is an alto saxophone player and jazz composer.

Besides Mr. Terry, there were Willie Smith, the alto sax player, and Major Holley, the bassist who died in 1990, among others.

Patrick Wolff, an alto saxophone player and the jazz camp residency faculty director, has been working with the Jazz Workshop for the past eight years.