Advertisement - Continue reading below

Definition of "tenorist" []

  • A musician who plays a tenor saxophone (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

Use "tenorist" in a sentence
  • "Next weekend at Smoke, top tenorist George Coleman, known for his early-'60s work with Davis, joins trumpeter Eddie Henderson and a truly Smoke-ing rhythm section led by pianist Harold Mabern."
  • "Splicing the huge sound and harmonic subtlety of swing-era tenorist Coleman Hawkins to Lester Young's lyrical looseness and Charlie Parker's momentum, Rollins offered a new agenda for the tenor saxophone."
  • "This is the follow up to the American swing-tenorist Scott Hamilton and British multi-saxist Alan Barnes's Zootcase."
Words like "tenorist"