1.   Here the quartet is joined by another frontman, alto saxophonist Lee Konitz.

2.   Alto saxophonist David Sanborn could have done with some fire from the night before to spark his latest effort.

3.   BIRD LIVES You may never be able to pick up a sheet of music and play it like the great alto saxophonist Charlie Parker.

4.   Abraham Burton is a fire-breathing alto saxophonist with a great debt to the later music of John Coltrane.

5.   Abstract, stream-of-consciousness improvising, always swinging, by one of the finest of the young alto saxophonists.

6.   Cameos from Gregg Allman and alto saxophonist Hank Crawford add spice, but the album belongs to the remarkably good Earl.

7.   Disk three includes two fortuitous collaborations, one with the alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and the other with the singer Annie Ross.

8.   Every Sunday it features acid jazz, a program started by the American alto saxophonist Greg Osby.

9.   Five years ago, avant-garde alto saxophonist Sonny Simmons emerged in stunning form after a dozen-year absence.

10.   Lee Konitz, the alto saxophonist, who used to stop sets to quiet the crowd, finally refused to go back.