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A large antique flea market in Bridgeport, Connecticut, announced that they're closing at the end of June. Mongers Market, which is located in an old warehouse on Railroad Avenue, said their last ...
Lucas attended a ceremony of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, celebrating their 40th anniversary and received 3 saxophones. Lucas now has soprano saxophone, an alto saxophone, and a travel saxophone.
PITTSFIELD — It will take 10 saxophones to perform the 10 pieces ... Then I found a tenor in an antique shop that matched pretty closely the old silver Conn alto I had been playing. I really wanted ...
“He prided himself on his arrangements but he really loved, just loved playing, the saddest part of the last six years of his life was that he wasn’t able to play sax, which was his first love ...
He was a leading voice of the more elemental style that came to be called “hard bop,” an evolution out of the bebop revolution wrought by his inspiration on the alto sax, Charlie Parker.
It sums up the wayward genius of Parker to know that he played the concert using a white plastic alto saxophone, having pawned his favourite brass one. Miles Davis famously said that “you can ...
Sarah Hanahan is a young alto saxophonist who has always been sure ... but it was the legendary drummer’s saxophone section that Hanahan noticed above all else, inspiring her to pick up the ...
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Maslin drove down to Tennessee to pick up five vintage Selmer Mark VI saxophones. A “mint” Mark VI will sell for up to $18,000. The most valuable instrument that PM Woodwind has sold was a rare Conn-O ...