The newest, Melody From the Sky (featuring the seldom-heard C-Melody saxophone), was recently the subject of a Wall Street Journal article by Nat Hentoff.A busy traveller, Scott has performed in some ...

Steve Cowles cradles a silver 1921 Conn C-Melody saxophone, a novelty even when it was made nearly a century ago. “I’ve been here three times this week,” Cowles says wistfully.

While I was playing “Careless Whisper” on piano, a guy with a saxophone joined in — and what followed was an unexpected but ...

Object Details manufacturer C. G. Conn Ltd. Description This saxophone was made by the C. G. Conn Ltd. in Elkhart, Indiana, around 1920. It a C-melody saxophone, serial #61640. It is tuned to the key ...

Trumbauer’s work on the C-melody saxophone slipping easily from rapid-fire virtuosity through honey-smooth phrasing into an occasional dash of whimsy. It’s no surprise that their playing was ...

Moments before, he’d been skronking away on his C-melody saxophone, lobbing a torrent of notes into the spaces around Sam Wilkes’ bouncing bassline. Suddenly, his voice erupts, as though he ...

The 68-year-old unidentified Atlanta man came down with an intractable case of “saxophone lung,” an actual condition familiar to germ experts — and to persnickety musicians. But he didn’t ...

A saxophone, as it happened. Well, at the age of 15, I had one. I was making a living at it. And at the age of 16, I was gone forever from home." Shaw taught himself to play the C melody saxophone ...

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