Curator of JazzBariSax.com
May 28th, 1985 | Andrew Hadro [Hey-dro]
Andrew Hadro is a professional musician, composer, and bandleader in Brooklyn, New York. Hadro’s primary instrument is baritone saxophone, though he also performs on bass clarinet, Bb clarinet, and flute, and is one of the only working musicians in New York City to play the bass saxophone.
Recently, Hadro has been presenting compositions by current living composers through his ongoing project “For Us, The Living,” An effort to honor tradition through innovation. Hadro has performed and recorded two albums for this series, with the most recent released in April 2018.
After 15 years in NYC, Hadro can be heard through an expanding discography and frequent live performances. He has played with and led ensembles large and small, featuring historical and modern styles, as well as through-composed and fully improvised music.
Born abroad in Mexico to American parents, Hadro spent most of his childhood in the Chicago area before moving to New York City to study at the New School for Jazz. In addition to working as a performer, Andrew Hadro is a product specialist for Vandoren, advising fellow musicians on equipment including reeds and mouthpieces. As curator of JazzBariSax.com Hadro provides resources and news to baritone saxophonists all over the world. During summers Hadro serves as a director and faculty member for the Litchfield Jazz Camp in Connecticut.
“Rather than follow the path of bop-oriented bari blazers…Hadro prefers to play the baritone saxophone in a soft, beautiful, subtle way. And rather than waiting around to be signed to a label, he’d rather do it himself.”
— BILL MILKOWSKI, DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE
Andrew’s set up:
- Low Bb Conn New Wonder II Baritone Saxophone
- Hard Rubber Vandoren V5 series B95 mouthpiece, Leather Ligature
- Vandoren ZZ 2 1/2 reeds
- Low C Kessler Bass Clarinet
- Vandoren B50 mouthpiece, Leather Ligature
- Vandoren V12 2 1/2 reeds
- Haynes Q2 Flute
- Conn Silver Plated Bass Saxophone
- Vandoren B75 V5 Series Mouthpiece, Leather Ligature
- Vandoren 2 Traditional Bass reeds
hello….I was wondering if you have the Bernies tune by mulligan baker quartet full transcription? both parts bari,trp. sell??
been trying to find a copy ….going nutz!
thanks
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Sorry! Never transcribed the other parts.
Heya,
I’m travelling to Zagreb this July to perform in the world saxophone Congress and am trying to work out how to get my baritone there. I’d rather not buy a second ticket and the airline has said the dimensions of my case won’t be allowed in the cabin as hand-luggage. Have you used the checked baggage option, taking it to the gate before it being put on the hold? Have you heard of any horror stories with this option!?
I have the option of a Jakob Winter carbon case with wheels or the standard Yanagisawa black box case. Which would you recommend?
If you can’t bring the instrument on board which is the best option, then there are two approaches. If you are going to check the instrument as baggage, I would recommend a very strong hard case, with additional padding (stuffing clothing into the gaps if needed) to make sure there is absolutely no movement inside the case, and optionally corking/clamping the keys shut so they don’t vibrate or flap themselves out of adjustment. If possible some people travel with an ‘anvil’ case. Essentially a large wheeled case that your entire hard case goes within and is checked as oversized baggage (fees probably involved).
The other option is to carry the horn through security and gate check it. I would still recommend a very sturdy hard shell case with extra padding. I would also recommend personally handing the horn to the airline personnel who will place it on the plane and respectfully and politely asking them to take extra care as it is a fragile instrument.
Flying with a baritone is a stressful situation and there are plenty of horror stories out there, but it can be done.
Thank you, that’s very helpful. I’ll see what I can manage!
Hello, I have a ‘Gaillard Loiselet Paris’ (it’s a Riffaut) old mouthpiece coming with an old high pitch Keilwerth from Amati Baritone.
The aperture is very closed , the chamber is large, the sound is not bad but impossible to regulate the tone, it stays low whatever the depth of the mouthpiece on the neck.
Do you have an explanation for me of this fenomenon?
Thanks for your great site !
Internal dimensions of a mouthpiece often dictate pitch (along with length), sometimes you can shave down a cork to allow you to push it on farther, but sometimes not all mouthpieces work for everyone on any given horn. You might have more luck with a modern mouthpiece with more precise dimensions.