Category: News

The Steve Goodson Baritone Sax

November 29, 2012 News 1 Comment

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!

November 18, 2012 Album Review, News 1 Comment

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

November 12, 2012 News No Comments

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.

Sad news. RIP Andrew Carrico

September 13, 2012 News 1 Comment

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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