Usage examples (29)

• This time, Barnes chooses favourites associated with the late Duke Ellington altoist Johnny Hodges, a teenage inspiration.
• He's cherry-picked some very good ones, played by combos drawn from a pool of seven players, including altoist John O'Gallagher and bassist Johannes Weidenmueller.
• He and fellow altoist Steve Coleman, pillars of Brooklyn's M-BASE collective, were fusing post-bop jazz with electronic funk and hip-hop back in the late 80's and early...
• The altoist wrote all of the compositions except for two: one is Mingus's melancholy "Self Portrait in Three Colors," the other a cover of, yes, "All Neon Like," by...