Man performing with saxophone at last gives solo (5)
I believe the answer is:
alone
'solo' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'man performing with saxophone at last' is the wordplay.
'man' becomes 'al' (**).
'performing' becomes 'on' (I've seen this in other clues).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'at last' says to take the final letters.
The last letter of 'saxophone' is 'e'.
'al'+'on'+'e'='ALONE'
'gives' is the link.
(Other definitions for alone that I've seen before include "unique" , "On one's own" , "Note of charges" , "Without anybody or anything else" , "Lacking company, solitary" .)