Alissimo Baritone, Sayyd Abdul al-Khabbyr

[Mamos]

Altissimo Baritone, Sayyd Abdul al-Khabbyr

From about minute 3:20 but listen to the whole thing cause it's fantastic

I wish I could ply my alto this high

Can't embed this particular video I'm affraid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xncznvkB7S8

enjoy

mamos

 

[Jules]

I once did a few gigs with a ska band called Mark Foggo's Skanksters, who had a baritone player who could overblow it to sound like a soprano (or otherwise' altissim-ize' it.... remarkable, I've never heard anything quite like it, except- possibly- bits of james carter)

 

[Saxlicker]

Nice vid!

I think a lot of the high stuff he was playing was actually tense mouthpiece/reed control rather than fingered altissimo though.

I once did a few gigs with a ska band called Mark Foggo's Skanksters, who had a baritone player who could overblow it to sound like a soprano (or otherwise' altissim-ize' it.... remarkable, I've never heard anything quite like it, except- possibly- bits of james carter)

I loved Mark Foggo's Skasters..back in the day

In a new ska band myself in 1992 we covered the very catchy numbers Hello (ska people) and Wierdo's