Alto Reed is a Detroit-area kid, as is Seger the rest of the band. But few know he moved to Miami in the 1970s and has made it his home ever since.

Nor was he reluctant to use some of the other edgy sax techniques associated with the adventurous ‘60s, including honking multi-phonics and the whispering of tapped sax keys.

Philipp Gerschlauer explains his video is the result of a technical exercise. “Practising the 128 notes per octave resulted in finding out a greater number of fingerings and listing them,” he says on ...