[78-L] Scott Robinson's contrabass sax

[Cary Ginell]

I have a piece of sheet music on the wall in my office here of the Six Brown Brothers. It's from 1921 - song is "Finders is Keepers (and I Found You)" but the fascinating thing is that each of the members of the group is holding a different sized saxophone. All are dressed in clown outfits, with in blackface. The saxes get progressively bigger as you go from left to right: soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, and contra bass. Neat picture.

 

Cary Ginell
 
> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:32:00 -0500
> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Scott Robinson's contrabass sax
> 
> 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
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> 
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