Learn about well-known alto saxophone players. See how their music, style, and talent made them stand out around the world.

What is your favorite saxophone part or parts in a rock ’n’ roll song? The sax is one of my favorite instruments. Its importance in jazz music cannot be overstated, but it also is a instrumental in ...

Alto Reed was the perennial sideman, Bob Seger’s ever-ready sidekick and the most visible mainstay within the Silver Bullet Band, the outfit that accompanied the Detroit rocker throughout most of a 50 ...

Detroit musician Alto Reed, best known as the saxophone player in Bob Seger's band, died Wednesday at age 72 after battling stage four colon cancer. His musicality and woodwind chops are forever part ...

You might be surprised to find out just how often the saxophone is used in classic rock. Not just relegated to jazz or big band music, there are sax players who roll and growl, swoop and dive on their ...

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 Thomas ...

Alto Reed, longtime saxophonist for Bob Seger's Silver Bullet Band, has passed away from colon cancer. He was 72. "Our hearts are deeply broken by this enormous loss, but also filled with gratitude as ...

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 our ...

Studio musicians contribute immeasurably, and often anonymously, to the fabric of pop music, making it a rarity when one rises above that anonymity the way saxophonist Raphael Ravenscroft did as the ...

Little Rock Winds and conductor Israel Getzov present a concert titled "Hobbits and Sax," 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Second Presbyterian Church, 600 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock. Saxophonist and ...

Joe Houston, the hard-charging R&B tenor saxophonist whose explosive early-1950s instrumentals not only anticipated but directly fueled the rise of rock & roll, died at a Long Beach assisted living ...