New Pages – Ronnie Ross and Dale Fielder
We have added two new pages, one for Ronnie Ross and one for Dale Fielder.
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 – Late August 2012
Howard Johnson featured in a TV commercial!
Any one over the age of 25 might remember seeing this commercial on tv from the 80’s. It is a Miller Lite commercial featuring baritone saxophonist Howard Johnson! Jazz, 80’s, baritone saxophone, what more could you want? Howard is definitely a syncopater of progressive riffs.
PS – JazzBariSax.com does not endorse Miller Lite, or beer in general for that matter.
UPDATE – December 2013, found a print ad for this campaign:
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:
