How many baritone sax players around here

[Ricman]

Besides me?

[seafoamer]

I can play the woodwinds.

[Big White Tele]

Alto, and tenor..

[Tripower455]

My dad plays bari sax in several big bands.......

[scottlr]

My love of the bari came from Tower of Power! Sadly, I don't play.

[DaveF]

I played bari sax in jr high and high school band.

[bard2dbone]

I was a brass player in high school. After a couple of decades of not playing any wind instrument, I found a tenor sax on Craigslist a week ago. It's in the shop getting a bit of rehab currently. But then I get to learn sax.

[ROKY]

Soprano, Alto Tenor AND Baritone, here.

Bari is a 1931 Conn 12M model .

[xroads]

Originally Posted by bard2dbone

I was a brass player in high school. After a couple of decades of not playing any wind instrument, I found a tenor sax on Craigslist a week ago. It's in the shop getting a bit of rehab currently. But then I get to learn sax.

Get a few lessons. Believe me: you CANNOT learn to play the sax without a teacher.

I am a tenor/alto/soprano player myself. Never looked into baritone, but I admire Gerry Mulligan, the stuff from Tower of Power, and the Mingus Big Band.

[Bluedawg]

One of my small groups is lead by a bari player ... big Gerry Mulligan fan .. we even did K-4 Pacific .. fun tune.

Unfortunately, his job is moving him .. probably to Maryland ... it was great fun playing bass with him.

I also play guitar in a couple of big swing bands ... bari players in both of those bands.

[ROKY]

Originally Posted by xroads

Get a few lessons. Believe me: you CANNOT learn to play the sax without a teacher.

I am a tenor/alto/soprano player myself. Never looked into baritone, but I admire Gerry Mulligan, the stuff from Tower of Power, and the Mingus Big Band.

I loved Pepper Adams, and the modern equivalent is Gary Smulyan.

I love the baritone, but tenor is probably my favorite .

[saxophonist56]

love bari's. geneseo state college gave me a new MKVI to play when i was in the jazz ensemble. bari's are supposed to be gig magnets.

[newking70]

you call that a sax?

[ROKY]

^^

That looks like a contrabass ..

I was trialing a bass sax from an online store a few years ago, and couldn't justify
using it anywhere, but I sometimes wished I'd kept it cuz it was very affordable
compared to what you could expect to pay

Ahh, well . . .

[Brett Valentine]

Another fan since Tower of Power and finding the Gerry Mulligan Paul Desmond recordings on CD! Been wanting a bass trombone ever since (used to cover Steve Kupka's parts in a horn band loong ago).