Mastodawn

Prestige re-released "Soultrane" along with "John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio," as a double album. The cover had a reversed image of John on a straight soprano.

I saw that, must've been 14 years old, and just HAD to have one. But my teacher schemed with my parents and I found myself with a tenor instead. It was about 10 years later that I finally got my hands on a Yamaha YSS-62.

These days I play a curvy; less weight on the old right thumb.

#saxophones

dana Feb 1

Rods and levers: the octave mechanism of a tenor saxophone. It took decades to develop this simple, yet quite sophisticated, branching system for directing a little bit of mechanical energy either upward, or to the side, depending upon which other keys may be pressed.

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#DigitalPhotography #Fujifilm #FujifilmXSeries #FujiXSeries #X20 #FujifilmX20 #FujiX20 #monochrome #saxophones

dana Jan 10

Upper crook, baritone.

2026 10/365

#BaritoneSaxophone
#saxophones
#DigitalPhotography #fujifilm #FujifilmXSeries #FujiXSeries #X100 #X100S #FujifilmX100S #FujiX100s
#monochrome

For the gearheads: that's a Viking M53, a well-regarded but short-lived boutique brand Taiwanese/US horn, following the design of the Series Super Action 80 Series II. I've never seen another baritone with wire upper key guards like that.

amen zwa, esq.Dec 17

The next development in #saxophones should be the replacement of those lengthy, imprecise, mechanical keyworks with compact, precise, micro encoders. This will not only make keying more precise, but will also simplify the construction and will reduce the price considerably.

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dana Nov 9

Having expressed that passage, my imagination seems to be moving on to a 12-tone tone row. I'll let that gestate a while and see how much beauty I can extract from it.

#music
#serialism
#saxophones

dana Nov 9

The figure that's been bouncing around in my head, and working its way out through my fingers to various horns. I'll think of it as my October Theme. Notated using MuseScore 2.

#music
#saxophones
#MuseScore2

dana Nov 2

Workin', workin', workin' on my cognitive frame.

Also my embouchure. Trying to loosen up, but with a stronger air stream. I tend to tighten up.

#adulting
#music
#embouchure
#saxophones

Andi Chorley Oct 21

Point of No Return is the debut album by the jazz group the World Saxophone Quartet released on the Moers Music label in 1977.

The album features a live performance by alto saxophonists Julius Hemphill and Oliver Lake, tenor saxophonist David Murray and baritone saxophonist Hamiett Bluiett. It was recorded at the 6th International New Jazz Festival in Moers in June 1977.

Writer Gary Giddins commented: "little on... Point of No Return suggested serious absorption in exploring the potential of a renegade sax section (Murray's hurly-burly 'Scared Sheetless' pointedly fills most of the play time), and that little bit was by Hemphill, who always preferred group conception to workaday nightly improvisation." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkolqx_-hwo&list=RDJkolqx_-hwo&start_radio=1

#WorldSaxophoneQuartet #MoersMusic #JuliusHemphill #OliverLake #DavidMurray #HamiettBluiett #Jazz #Saxophones #Music #FreeJazz

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knizer Feb 13, 2025

#NalaSinephro - Endlessness

Ambient Jazz! Nice synths and sax on top. No vocals, just exploration, really quite sublime.
Its on 6 different top 10's, highest at 3/50 from Crack

https://album.link/us/i/1752836259
https://crackmagazine.net/article/list-article/best-albums-2024/
https://nalasinephro.bandcamp.com/album/endlessness
#ExperimentalJazz #Jazz #music #ambient #WarpRecords #Saxophones

Endlessness by Nala Sinephro

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