In the new article released today I’ve collated my advice, experience and hopefully a fairly complete and accurate comparison of many of the options out there today. I’d like to thank Jason Marshall, Lauren Sevian, and Jeff Suzda for their input on the article as well.
Please head on over and check out the Baritone Saxophone Cases article.
Owen Broder has kindly sent in an additional transcription for the repository. This one is from be-bop master, Cecil Payne, on the great tune, “Scrapple From the Apple”. Head over to give it a download!
Baritone Saxophonist, Tim Stocker, has just released an album he has been working on for some time. These days Tim is living and playing in Singapore, but this album features some of the best musicians in NYC. The music is groove oriented with lots of great blowing and stretching out.
The album is officially out, so head on over and have a listen for yourself:
https://timstockermusic.bandcamp.com/
The album is simply titled, “Introducing Paul Nedzela”, and he’s brought in a great group of musicians to support him.
Paul was a student of the late Joe Temperley, and now holds the baritone chair in Wynton Marsalis’ Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. In this author’s opinion, Paul is one of the best baritone saxophonists out there. He gets some solo opportunities in the LJCO, but its great to see him have a chance to really showcase his writing, blowing and small group work.
I’ve only made it through the whole album once, but rest assured its going to stay in rotation. Paul has a beautiful sound, unique to him, but clearly influenced by the baritone greats.
Use the links below to check out Paul’s album.
JazzTimes.com has posted a nice article with baritone saxophonist, Lauren Sevian, in which she discusses some of her favorite and some of the most iconic baritone saxophone solos. They have even created a nice Spotify playlist so you can listen to everything referenced.
Lauren is of course well versed in all the different baritone saxophone recordings, and I think her list is an excellent one with quite a bit of variation and hitting a lot of the major solos. Definitely a great starting place for a young baritone saxophonist or someone interested in delving deeper in the deep saxophone.
Check out the full article:
https://jazztimes.com/features/lists/artists-choice-lauren-sevian-baritone-saxophone/
Paul Nedzela holds the baritone chair in the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. In between all of the rehearsing, performing, and traveling he’s managed to record his first album as a leader and has just released a single from it.
The full album will be released in July 12th. I’m looking forward to hearing it, and many of you should be too.
Head on over to read more about it and check out the single titled “Lisa”
https://www.outsideinmusic.com/artistsandreleases/2019/6/14/paul-nedzela-lisa
Check out this unique interview with Pepper Adams from 1977!
A fantastic chance to hear him speak – he even covers the reason behind his then recent departure from the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis band.
Thanks to Gary Carner of www.pepperadams.com for putting up the link for this. Gary has collected an incredible number of interviews (many audio only) with Pepper that you can check out here:
http://www.pepperadams.com/Interviews/index.html#
Stefan Zeniuk is perhaps most known for wielding his creation, the Flame-O-Phone. He is also often part of various rock, and jazz groups in addition to many different types of unique performance art.
Stefan wrote an article for the Red Hook Brooklyn Based Star Revue paper for the 10th anniversary of his creation, the Baritone Army. They are known for bizarre and humorous appearances mostly around New York City but have expanded globally as well. One of their more extravagant projects are their videos “The Honking Dead” a baritone saxophone based parody of the popular show, “The Walking Dead”.
Check out his recent articles here.
The NYC baritonist, Josh Sinton has an in-depth and informative article in the May 2019 edition of DownBeat magazine as part of the recurring ‘Reed School’ series. Josh goes into great detail about his work to expand his dynamic abilities and also about the inspiration for this endeavor, Harry Carney.
My own personal opinion is that with the under-appreciation and stereo-typing of the baritone saxophone, it is more often than not considered a loud instrument, but frankly it should have just as much of a dynamic range as any other woodwind. As such, I’m glad Josh has put this out into the world with a step by step account of how he’s approached working on dynamics.
Josh’s writing is very thorough but readable. I’d recommend that any baritone saxophonist looking to round out their abilities check out this article.
We have had our first transcription addition in a while. Today’s newest download features a Pepper Adams solo on the jazz standard, “Alone Together”. It comes from the album, Critic’s Choice.
Thank you to Itay Raiten for sending this one in!