Five notes on a saxophone changed Alto Reed's life. It just so happened the notes became among the most iconic in all of rock and roll, launched his long career with "Bob Seger and the Silver ...

Great saxophone players do more than just hit the right notes on their instrument, researchers say. They can also tune their own vocal tract to match. Musicians have long known that professional ...

Portland's all-women sax quartet, the Quadraphonnes, shown here in a provided photo. The band will perform the music of the eccentric artist Moondog at the Alberta Rose Theater on Friday, March 7 ...

Alto Saxophone article by Bob Bernotas, published on April 9, 2015 at All About Jazz. ... Somethin' Else (Blue Note, 1958) A modernist influenced as much by Benny Carter as by Charlie Parker, Adderley ...

“Practising the 128 notes per octave resulted in finding out a greater number of fingerings and listing them,” he says on his YouTube channel. “My quest was to explore microtonal possibilities on the ...

Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band sax player Alto Reed died on December 30th, and here's his final performance of "Turn the Page." ...

Alto Reed, who played saxophone for multiplatinum Bob Seger‘s Silver Bullet Band for nearly half a century, died Wednesday of colon cancer. He was 72. Seger posted a note about his “lifelong ...

“Practising the 128 notes per octave resulted in finding out a greater number of fingerings and listing them,” he says on his YouTube channel. “My quest was to explore microtonal possibilities on the ...