Miscellaneous Stunning and Barking Mad bass sax playing!

[DaveT]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UejNbSrJIuA

Bloke called Colin Stetson.
(I'm sure he won't be able to do that without a heart attack when he's older!)
The song is "Judges" if you need to search You Tube.

 

[Greg Strange]

Colin came to NZ a few years back played his 100 year old bass sax with the Canadian band "Arcade Fire" also plays alto sax on a Dave Gilmour (Pink Floyd) solo album - I also have two or three of his solo albums...great stuff - not for the faint hearted...

Greg S.

 

[Colin the Bear]

Several threads on here about him.

 

[Wonko]

OK......
It has a big factor of "See what I can do ....."
Looks like he went out of his way to achieve sounds that could be achieved easier with a keyboard for instance......
...
But it is Impressive!

 

[Jules]

OK......
It has a big factor of "See what I can do ....."
Looks like he went out of his way to achieve sounds that could be achieved easier with a keyboard for instance......
...
But it is Impressive!

He always struck me as a guy who was reinventing what can be done with a sax from the ground up... pretty baffling why he did this but very impressive

 

[TobyB]

Sometimes you do things just to see if they can be done...
....and sometimes, because you want to.

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erases tape afterwards.

 

[helen]

He always struck me as a guy who was reinventing what can be done with a sax from the ground up... pretty baffling why he did this but very impressive

I have seen Colin Stetson live here in Vancouver when he performed at a very intimate setting at the Vancouver Jazz festival. There were about 50 of us in a very small theatre venue--40+ were likely sax players. 😉

This was right after his Judges album was released, and he was just beginning to show the world what could be done with a bass saxophone.

The 2 hour long concert featured only him performing with nothing other than his Conn bass decked out with internal body mics, and specially set key work to capture the key noise. The performance was quite awe-inspiring since it fundamentally changed my view of the saxophone as a monophonic instrument.

Sure, we may have studied multiphonics with our instructors, but to hear and see an entire 2 hour long performance with the bass used as a true polyphonic instrument, caused a fundamental paradigm shift for sax players in the audience.

No longer do we see our horns as only capable of playing 1 note at a time. Instead, our horns are able to truly be capable of playing multiple notes at once, which combined with circular breathing, allows a player with super crazy skills to fill a theatre with sound like an organ might.