New Pages – Ronnie Ross and Dale Fielder
We have added two new pages, one for Ronnie Ross and one for Dale Fielder.
Category: News
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!
Updates – August 2012
A new page was added for Mario Rivera – a great baritone saxophonist long associated with latin music (Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente etc).
Some new videos were added to the videos page, and a bunch of other pages were cleaned up.
60th Annual DOWNBEAT Critics poll results
Congratulations to Gary Smulyan who won the 2012, 60th annual DOWNBEAT magazine critics poll for Baritone Saxophone!
Greg Tardy won the “Rising Star” Category.
If you are a DOWNBEAT reader, the 77th annual reader’s poll survey is now open. Click below to vote!
New Transcriptions!
3 new Pepper Adams transcriptions have been posted, “Down Tempo”, “Soulful Kiddy”, and “Sudwest Funk”. We also have our very first Scott Robinson solo, on the “Remembering” movement of Bob Brookmeyer’s Celebration suite – originally written for Gerry Mulligan. Head over to the Transcription page to check all of these out!
A big thank you to Ryan Middagh for sending these transcriptions over.
New videos, check out the transcriptions!
We added some new interesting videos to our videos page, and if you haven’t been here in a while check out the transcriptions page, a few new ones there too! Aaron LIngton’s transcription of Pepper Adams‘ solo on Bossallegro is in the lead with 50 downloads!
If you have a great video to suggest, or a transcription you’d like to add, just contact us!
Hurry, help Frank Basile! [UPDATE]
UPDATE: 6/21/2012 – Frank’s project has reached its funding goal and the project can proceed! Excellent work everyone.
Frank Basile has under a week and needs just over $1,000 to successfully fund his Kickstarter project. Having purchased and extensively listened to all of Frank’s previous albums I can safely say that this next one will be great. Remember, this is Kickstarter, so Frank doesn’t get any of the funding unless he reaches that $5,000 goal. Check out the video:
New site is up, Frank Basile’s new project!
Welcome to the new JazzBariSax.com! The new framework of the site will allow for much more interactivity and more frequent updates. We will now be able to feature new releases, reviews, upcoming gigs and all sorts of amazing baritone branded events. We also are hoping to get some new articles to celebrate the re-launch of the site. Thank you for making it so popular!
Our first exciting bit of news to relate is that baritone saxophonist Frank Basile has just launched a Kickstarter project to help get his next CD put into production and released. Kickstarter is a wonderful new online project funding website where artists can really take control and get the money they need to make their music become real. Frank’s last two albums as a leader are fantastic, and there is absolutely no doubt this one will be too. Head on over to his Kickstarter page to pledge! You can pledge different amounts of money, your credit card is only charged at the completion date if the project is successful. Lets make sure it is.
A baritone HANG in NYC!
On Thursday May 10th, 2012 Claire Daly and Andrew Hadro co-hosted a veritably massive hang for all of the baritone saxophonists in the NYC area. We had a great turnout, and an even better time talking all things baritone. Claire graciously offered her loft space and JazzBariSax.com provided the snacks.
We were lucky enough to have with us all of these great people (in no particular order): Adison Evans, Andrew Hadro, Claire Daly, Jason Marshall, Matt Snyder, B.J. Jansen, Roger Rosenberg, Kenny Berger, Don Payne, Ex Xiques, Frank Basile, Erik Lawrence, Frank Vacin, Brad Hubbard, Tony Lustig, Lisa Parrott, Jon Gudmundson!
