The King of All Horns enters the 21st century.
Check out Sylvain Carton demo-ing some Dunlop effects pedals with his baritone saxophone at the 2013 NAMM conference:
Category: News
Learning Altissimo on the baritone? Jeff Suzda can help.
Baritone saxophonist Jeff Suzda has posted the first in a series of helpful short instructional videos to help others in their altissimo journey.
Be sure to check back on Jeff’s YouTube page for his additional videos in the coming weeks, and if you haven’t already checked it out, go take a gander at his 4 octave chromatic scale demonstration.
UPDATE: Check out Jeff’s subsequent videos Part 2, and Part 3!
Baritone Monk CD
Claire Daly’s “baritone monk” is currently NUMBER 1 on the CMJ jazz chart!
Congrats to Claire on a well deserved adulation. If you haven’t already done so, head to Claire’s website to check the album out. It is quite swingin.
The Steve Goodson Baritone Sax
Professional baritone saxophonist Steve Goodson has designed his own baritone saxophone to address all of the problems found in most baritone saxophones (especially newer models). All of these updates look great! A low Bb model would be a beautiful thing, but is unlikely to ever see the light of day because it is not economically feasible.
New releases from the baritone community!
Baritone saxophonists often find difficulty in escaping the paradigm that the only place for them is anchoring a big band. So for baritone saxophonists with ambitions of improvisation and making creative music in a small group setting they often must set out and create groups and recordings for themselves. We are happy to announce two new such ventures from the baritone saxophone community.
The first is a new album co-led by Aaron Lington, from the BiCoastal collective titled Chapter Three.
Click here to listen to a track from the CD on YouTube!
“Sparkling solos in a decidedly post-bop setting. The music throughout this enjoyable CD keeps revealing new facets with each hearing.” –All Music Guide
The next album comes from baritone saxophonist Shirantha Beddage. This is Shirantha’s second CD as leader, entitled “Identity”. It features a set of his original compositions on baritone sax (and a special bonus track on bass clarinet), with a stellar group of musicians from Toronto and New York.
Please visit his site (www.shiranthabeddage.com) for more information and sound samples from the CD. Physical copies are currently available, and Itunes and other online distribution will be up in a few weeks.
Saxophone innovations
Until recently, building a new saxophone usually meant making yet another tired copy of the Selmer Mk VI. So it is with great interest that we learned of neosax.com. A website devoted to very interesting and definitely new ways of designing and building saxophones. Including some attention spent on the baritone and even its larger brother the bass saxophone! Spend some time and checkout their new projects on their site here.
Downbeat Readers Poll – Baritone Saxophone
The 77th annual Downbeat readers poll has been released in the December issue. Check out the results for baritone saxophone here. James Carter and Gary Smulyan tied for the top spot this year.
New Pages – Ronnie Ross and Dale Fielder
We have added two new pages, one for Ronnie Ross and one for Dale Fielder.
Sad news. RIP Andrew Carrico
Seattle native and Baritone saxophonist Andrew Carrico passed away Tuesday morning. The baritone community has lost a beautiful musician. Last I heard him a couple years back he had really found his sound. It’s sad that we won’t hear his later musical destinations. Too soon, & too young. Rest in peace, Andrew.
-Hadro
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Joy Road: The Complete Works of Pepper Adams!
Historian Gary Carner has launched an epic project in dedication of Pepper Adams that includes a week of performances in New York City, a new book about Adams, the release of 2 CDs, and a digital box set.
Click here for the full story!
