[78-L] Scott Robinson's contrabass sax

[David Lennick]

I just found Vince Giordano's name in a book! He's co-credited with creating 
the index in Brian Gari's reprint of Eddie Cantor's autobiographies. 
Surprisingly he isn't credited with helping with the discography (which is nice 
and complete and well laid out, even if it doesn't identify the column 
containing the matrix numbers and accidentally calls Melotone "Monument".

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> 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
>>
>> *******
>>
>> Cary Ginell wrote:
>>   
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEgCASLiGTU&fmt=18
>>>
>>>
>>> The story of how Scott landed this rarest of all items is worth telling.
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> *************
>>> I saw Scott play a variety of saxophones in Ascona, Switzerland in 2003, but he didn't bring the big baby.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Cary Ginell
>>>  		 	   		  
>>>   
>>>