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The alto saxophone had a prominent role in the development of jazz.

It is the most common saxophone and is used in popular music, concert bands, chamber music, solo repertoire, military bands, marching bands, pep bands, and jazz (such as big bands, jazz combos, swing music).

The alto saxophone is pitched in E ♭, smaller than the B ♭ tenor but larger than the B ♭ soprano. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. If you continue to practice, playing from a score with both the written and actual pitch on it, you are sure to get used to it soon.The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. There is no need to be overly concerned with the details of this process when first starting out. When actually playing in a group, however, because it is more convenient to use names for the notes that are common to everyone, the notes are referred to in terms of actual sounds (hence term concert pitch). This arrangement was originally conceived with the intention of making saxophone fingerings easier. For an F major on the alto saxophone, the player should play a D major on the score. What that means in practice is that to play a concert F major on a tenor saxophone, the player should play a G major on the score.

When a C is played on a tenor saxophone, however, the actual pitch produced corresponds to a B♭ on a piano, and in the case of an alto saxophone, playing a C actually produces an E♭. Tenor saxophones are tuned to B♭, and alto saxophones are tuned to E♭, but when playing the same note on a score, the fingerings are the same. Transposing instruments produce sounds different from those in the score and those produced by non-transposing instruments (the piano is the standard for actual or "concert" pitch). Because the saxophone is a transposing instrument, when changing from one instrument to another, such as from an alto to a tenor, playing the same score will produce different actual sounds.