Name a White Alto Player

[Cyril]

What about Piet Noordijk?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GZoqM9f0qc...feature=related

[AllenLowe]

doesn't qualify - too white -

[LarryCurleyMoe]

1) Mark Vinci - Sonny Stitt spoke highly of this mofo!

2) West Coaster/Avant alto - Jim Ryan of Forward energy - quite a creative caucasian!

[clifford_thornton]

Are we referring to white Americans or shall we include white Europeans, South Africans, etc.?

[AllenLowe]

they must be white, Jewish, and be between 5 foot 6 and 5 foot 9

also, they must have middle names ending in "D"

[Hot Ptah]

Has Marty Nau been mentioned?

[BruceH]

Paul Desmond is my favorite white alto player:

I hear ya!

Call me old-fashioned, but I still really dig Desmond.

But then, I also really like Art Pepper, Lee Konitz, and Lennie Niehaus. I even like Jimmy Dorsey a whole lot.

Just to show how irrelevant the race issue can be (or how ill-informed I could be) for several years I thought Jackie McLean was white. The few b&w photos I'd seen of him made him look kind of white. What can I say, this was long before you could look anybody up on Google or Wikipedia. So I guess back in that time he was one of my favorite "white" altoists.