[78-L] Scott Robinson's contrabass sax

Malcolm Rockwell malcolm at 78data.com
Thu Dec 3 09:06:59 PST 2009


Wow. I'm mightily impressed!
Thanks, Cary!
Malcolm

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Cary Ginell wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEgCASLiGTU&fmt=18
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> The story of how Scott landed this rarest of all items is worth telling.
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> I saw Scott play a variety of saxophones in Ascona, Switzerland in 2003, but he didn't bring the big baby.
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> You can hear him play his sax collection on "Thinking Big" (Arbors 19179), including a version of the old Clarence Williams classic "Mandy, Make Up Your Mind," in which Sidney Bechet upstaged Louis Armstrong by playing a sarrusaphone he borrowed from a local hock shop.
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> Cary Ginell
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