I was thrown into the bass clarinet world in college and was woefully unprepared. So I’ve gathered some information from my experience of the last 20 years and collated it into a new article to hopefully help young (or old!) baritonists dive into the world of the bass clarinet.
Please check out the article and let me know what you think!
-Andrew
Fulton Street Collective presents a performance with THE LOW END Baritone Saxophone Big Band on Wednesday, August 16th at 8pm
Venue
Fulton Street Collective
1821 West Hubbard Street, #suite 307
Chicago, IL 60622 United States
The Low End
Baritone Saxophone Big Band:
Jacob Slocum, Mark Hiebert, Juli Wood, Alex Blomarz, Len’i Glenn-McKinney, Ted Hogarth, Joey Rosin, Roy McGrath, Andy Schlinder, Jimmy Farace, Joe Trahan, Kyle Madsen, Solomon Flores, Rajiv Halim, Tim McNamara, Steve Schnall
Julius Tucker – Piano
Joshua Ramos – Bass
Kieth Brooks – Drums
7:30 Doors
8pm Show
In-Person Only
$15 Suggest Donation
Saturday May 20th at Ornithology Jazz Club in Brooklyn, NYC.
Low blowing starts at 6:30pm.
There are so many great young baritone saxophonists, we are pleased to present just a handful of them here. 6 baritonists under 30! It’s going to be a great night.
6:30-7:15 Ben Caranicas & Hunter Pullen
7:45-8:30 Saul Dautch
9-9:45 Courtney Wright
10:15-11 Joey Rosin
11:30-12:15 Bryan Cowan
Its not baritone, but I think all of the baritonists out there can appreciate a beautiful bass sax. After all, Harry Carney said he based his sound on Adrian Rollini’s! Here’s Scott Robinson playing ‘Smoke Gets In Your Eyes’.
If you are curious to learn more about the curator of this site (me! Andrew Hadro..). There’s a new podcast episode where I speak in depth about the baritone sax, altissimo, the NYC ‘jazz’ scene and much more. Check it out below.
Thank you to Tom Sabin for sending in a new transcription on a Jason Marshall Solo!
This one is on “Never Stop Loving You” from Jason’s recent release, New Beginnings.
Checkout the song below, and head over to the Transcriptions page to grab a copy!
While this album is very straight ahead, Gary has still managed to avoid over saturating the recording world with more common standards. A lot of the songs here are very unfamiliar, continuing his trend of bringing to light lesser known compositions. His last few albums featured a lot of obscure contra-facts over more common chord changes.
The playing and recording quality are very well done here, if you’re a fan of Gary’s playing (who isn’t?) you should have a listen.
I’m sure you all have heard about the passing of the great Ronnie Cuber. Ronnie once told me in a lesson that he couldn’t listen to Leo Parker anymore because he would copy it so much! Incidentally the great baritonists, Jason Marshall and Frank Basile will be playing two nights this weekend to celebrate Ronnie Cuber at Cafe Bohemia in NYC – Friday and Saturday I believe. Both Jason and Frank are huge fans of Leo Parker and Frank has done quite a bit of work documenting all Leo Parker recordings.
In other Leo news, Leo P (not to be confused with the aforementioned Leo Parker) has won the 87th annual DownBeat Magazine Readers’ poll. I’m sure this will grind some people’s gears as Leo P doesn’t play strictly jazz and attracts a young following as much from his outfits, hair , and dancing as he does for his playing. I personally find his music a bit monotonous, but I am thrilled that a lot of young people find interest in acoustic music and instruments through him. Leo P is a fine baritonist and actually should get credit for incorporating some extended techniques into his playing in a very approachable way. Also we can hope that anyone that gets interested in the baritone through him will also branch out to other realms of the baritone and further inspiration found therein. So congratulations to Leo P, anyone hearing him for the first time should also definitely check out his main inspiration, the late great, Ronnie Cuber.
Greatly sorry to report Ronnie Cuber has passed away.
Ronnie Cuber. 1941-2022
Undoubtedly among the greatest baritonists of all time.
