Quadruple-bass saxophone
Is that what Doctor Braxton is playing here? Does he have a bellows hidden under his sweater-vest, or what? (Also: is this the score? I think that might be the score, or part of it.)
Comments
on 2005-09-22 6:20:13.0, Kriston commented:
I count one sub-contra bass and two bari saxes. But I'm really not sure that's the right instrumentation for the Paul Simon medley he's playing.
and, further, on 2005-09-22 9:08:50.0, rone commented:
The Boy says it's a contrabass. We have seen such monstrosities at San Jose Saxophone Christmas.
and, further, on 2005-09-22 11:55:55.0, Matt Weiner commented:
contrabass--there's a picture of him playing one on one of the Hat Art CDs--
Jiminy. I just accidentally F11ed. Scary stuff.
--maybe Dortmund? Except I'm not sure he does play the CBsax on that CD. Now I am. (Picture offer may only apply to the 6000 series issue, not the Hatology reissue, which is out of print again anyway.) I suspect the other sax is a bass, not a bari--AFAIK Braxton doesn't play tenor or bari.
I've heard of a Roscoe Mitchell piece involving contrabass saxophone, triple bass viol, and something equally ridiculous--Gerald Oshita on contrabass sarrusophone?--but cannot confirm.
The new Hatology albums, reissues aside, don't look so interesting. But maybe I should order up some of those midprice ones.
and, further, on 2005-09-22 0:25:17.0, Kriston commented:
OK, I think you're right that those are bass not bari saxes; that would make them Bb horns, which the contrabass is as well. I thought it was a subcontrabass because that horn is pitched to Eb (like the bari). But I don't think I recall any Braxton stuff where he played tenor/bari, either.
and, further, on 2005-09-22 13:27:03.0, apostropher commented:
Banjo.
and, further, on 2005-09-23 16:15:11.0, Matt Weiner commented:
I have to say I don't see three saxes there anyway.
and, further, on 2005-09-23 16:37:02.0, ben wolfson commented:
I only see two saxes.
and, further, on 2005-09-23 17:55:26.0, dave zacuto commented:
Hell of a jazz Laocoon
and, further, on 2005-09-24 7:18:54.0, Jean-Luc P. commented:
There—are—four—saxes!
and, further, on 2005-09-24 17:01:19.0, kriston commented:
Look at his right hand and you can see the bell of a third horn; look upward slightly and you can see the curve of the top of that horn. Also, the bottom of the picture shows three stands.
and, further, on 2005-09-24 19:01:16.0, Matt Weiner commented:
Poppa Capps is right. Bridgeplate, Scorpions and Sarah Mac and this?
and, further, on 2005-09-25 8:44:38.0, Standpipe Bridgeplate commented:
I'm not sure what you mean.
and, further, on 2005-09-25 11:51:13.0, Matt Weiner commented:
You may not be aware that, via my magic mouseover capabilities, I am capable of reading people's e-mail addresses even when they post under the names of musicians that I feel to be slightly incongruous with their previously expressed musical tastes.
and, further, on 2005-09-25 11:53:52.0, ben wolfson commented:
The "P." could have been "Picard", you know. That's what I thought at first—"Ponty" didn't even occur to me until just now.
and, further, on 2005-09-25 0:30:45.0, Matt Weiner commented:
Picard? But his first name is Simon.
Aargh, I ran across this while searching, and on reflecting that one of my friends skipped out on my current employer to go to this school, I am now eating my liver. Jealousy! Jealousy! Jealousy!
So, SB, which was it? (I feel a petard beneath my seat. Jean-Luc Petard, I'm calling him.)
and, further, on 2005-09-25 20:16:09.0, Standpipe Bridgeplate commented:
It was Picard. But! Judging from what little I know of it, I think I'd like Ponty's music pretty well. His touring with Béla Fleck suggests so, anyhow.
Your apparent belief that I like Scorpions, though, is a puzzle. I like a lot of music, but not theirs. Please rejigger your taste-o-tron.
and, further, on 2005-09-26 9:30:07.0, Matt Weiner commented:
So was "There—are—four—saxes!" a Picard line? That possiblity occurred to me much later, in which case I feel very silly.
(But notice that I managed to insinuate my unfamiliarity with more than the most obvious Star Trek references, de-nerdifying myself slightly. I am devious.)
Anyway, thanks for the concessive "But!" I don't like Ponty's music much, except this and this which are not at all typical--but then I'm pretty sure I don't like Fleck either. (Not too fond of much fusion.) I do not actually believe that you like the Scorpions, but it is pretty to think so.
and, further, on 2005-09-26 9:33:50.0, ben wolfson commented:
I'm told that "King Kong" and "Music for Low-Budget Orchestra and Violin" are pretty good.
and, further, on 2005-09-26 10:27:09.0, Matt Weiner commented:
If you like Zappa, presumably.
and, further, on 2005-09-26 10:47:30.0, Standpipe Bridgeplate commented:
An interrogation finds Picard stripped nearly naked before his captor and a bank of four blinding lights. To gain his freedom, all he has to do is admit there are five. Again and again his captor asks how many he sees. Always Picard says four, and always he shrieks as his body writhes in punishment. His captor asks again, but before he can answer his rescuers intervene. Wretched and nearly broken, Picard turns a last time to his captor and answers triumphantly, at the edge of coherence:
"There—are—four—lights!"
and, further, on 2005-09-26 10:49:31.0, Matt Weiner commented:
Thank you kindly.
and, further, on 2005-09-26 10:57:04.0, Standpipe Bridgeplate commented:
Then Worf and Riker have vigorous sex.
and, further, on 2005-09-26 11:45:04.0, Matt Weiner commented:
I must admit that I know enough about Star Trek to know that that is implausible.
and, further, on 2005-09-26 13:17:34.0, dave zacuto commented:
Somehow, Riker is gotten with child as a result.
and, further, on 2005-09-26 16:22:31.0, ben wolfson commented:
If you like Zappa, presumably.
The Ensemble Modern's Greggary Peccary album is pretty nice.
and, further, on 2007-06-19 16:10:30.0, ben wolfson commented:
I've heard of a Roscoe Mitchell piece involving contrabass saxophone, triple bass viol, and something equally ridiculous--Gerald Oshita on contrabass sarrusophone?--but cannot confirm.
A quartet for bass sax (Mitchell), triple contrabass viol (Brian Smith), contrabass sarrusophone (Oshita), and voice (Thomas Buckner), on Four Compositions, released by Lovely Music, and audited by me right now.