[78-L] Scott Robinson's contrabass sax

[Michael Biel]

Now I want to hear comments from Vince Giodano!   That story and the CNN 
report is great!   When I was in grad school at Northwestern, the guy in 
the next apartment was a sax major.  There was a sax conference down in 
Chicago and he literally had to drag me down to a conference concert 
kicking and screaming.  He said this was a once in a lifetime ensemble, 
a saxophone sextette they put together especially for that conference.  
He told me I would be blown away but I didn't believe him. All I could 
think of was the Six Brown Bros. and I was not looking forward to it.  
But GAD, what a SOUND!!  Never before or since have I ever heard such a 
wonderful sound.  I had thought the greatest sound was a bass sax, but 
now I realize that it is possible that that special ensemble for that 
conference might have included a contrabass like this as well. 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> Wow. I'm mightily impressed!
> Thanks, Cary!
> Malcolm
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> *******
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> Cary Ginell wrote:
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>> 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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