noun

• A person who plays a tenor instrument, especially the tenor saxophone.

  ‘Disc four contains the best music, featuring collaborations with a procession of fine tenorists.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The opening is a snorty sax conversation over fast, free-swing drumming between the two tenorists.’
  • ‘His blurred tone and urbane, eloquent solos are enjoyable enough, but the star here is the tenorist.’
  • ‘Only one other tenorist could hold his own next to Gordon, and that was Wardell Gray.’