Siily me. I thought you were talking about the color of the finish on the saxophone. I played in North Dakota, many years ago, and we were not racially diverse at that time. However, many of the greats in Jazz were black. I'd rather decide on whether I like the sound, than what color of skin the player has (or the color of the lacquer, for that matter).

Not that I am not used to translating non specific posters, but do you mean Black finished alto saxes or do you mean Black Alto Sax Players? I don't think anyone really knows what you mean as you have only 1 reply. No matter which one you mean, why do you ask? If you are asking about finishes, it's because only recently has it become more popular I doubt they coudln't have made black laquer in the past. And they have had nickel plated saxes for a long time too, probably easily tinted to black. All about what's popular. Ok now if you mean black players, most of the important sax players have been black. Probaby relates to the origin of the blues and jazz. I would say alot of prof. sax players are black but as far as community players, I really see more white players then black, and I live in a pretty black white area. Not much deversity in other races in this area so I can't really comment on that. But it's common in most of the community bands I have played in this area (at least 4) there are more white players in all groups then black, including sax (ironicly 2 groups were lead by black conductors). When I was in college there was really only 2 black sax players and many more white ones. Both were really good, one tenor and one alto player and this was in a school that probaby had 20 Sax Majors at all school levels. You can see the uneven levels. I really wouldn't want to predict why the levels were like they were because whenever you make obvious conclusions based on real facts people start screaming Racial Profiling or Rasist so I will just let you decide whatever you like base on my observation of my playing area. Is that enough answer for whichever you ment?

Jazz was invented mostly by black people. Now people of all colors love and play Jazz. How well you play it is the important thing.......Kelsey

color does matter...just the quality of the music anyways... We have one black bari sax, one flute, and one trumpet in a group of 103 people