{"id":31810,"date":"2012-05-08T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=31810"},"modified":"2024-05-31T10:33:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T17:33:12","slug":"r-i-p-bobby-dukoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2012\/r-i-p-bobby-dukoff\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Bobby Dukoff"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bobby Dukoff Source: Bobby Dukoff’s facebook page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The man who provided the sound for a generation of saxophone players, passed away last week.<\/p>\n

Bobby Dukoff was born October 11, 1918. He was first and foremost a phenomenal saxophone player. After he bought his first horn at the age of 14, for $45, with money he earned working at a delicatessen, he went on to become a member of some of the most famous Big Bands in history.<\/p>\n

After his Big Band days\u2014with notables such as Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, and Jimmy Dorsey, were over\u2014Dukoff went on to have a very successful solo career. He was known for his lush tenor sound, which became a defining feature of his brand.<\/em><\/p>\n

According to the Dukoff website<\/a>, this is how Bobby Dukoff’s mouthpiece business started:<\/p>\n

Bobby has always been fascinated with the mechanics of mouthpieces as he realized that \u201cthe sound started there.\u201d While playing top shows in California he started experimenting in his garage and soon all his friends from the Big Band days were coming around to have Bobby just \u201ctouch up\u201d their mouthpieces. This naturally led to his own mouthpiece business and today those early California models are collectors\u2019 items.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In 1956, Dukoff moved from California to a suburb of Miami, and set up his own recording studio, Dukoff Recording. He ran that studio until the early 1970s.<\/p>\n

However, as saxophone players, we likely know Bobby Dukoff’s passion for mouthpieces, more than his work as a recording engineer.<\/p>\n

After he relocated to Florida, Dukoff continued to develop his mouthpieces, and introduced many innovations which were appreciated by players everywhere. It would not be overstating it to say, that Bobby Dukoff literally changed the sound of saxophone players the world over.<\/p>\n

I have been playing on Dukoff mouthpieces for over 15 years now. Their lush, rich, yet bright, projecting, overtone-full, edgy sound, has come to define my tenor sound.<\/p>\n

I will always be grateful for the work of Bobby Dukoff. He put an end to my search for the perfect mouthpiece<\/em>.<\/p>\n

News of Bobby Dukoff’s death broke on May 4, on saxophone websites, as well as Kenny G’s<\/a> and Bobby Dukoff’s<\/a> Facebook pages. So far there has been nothing posted on the Dukoff website<\/a>, or noted online in newspapers.<\/p>\n

The saxophone world did indeed lose another giant with the passing of Bobby Dukoff. His life’s work will live on however, not only through his plentiful recordings, but through all of those players who use Dukoff mouthpieces the world over. There really can be no better legacy than that, for a man who sought to build the best mouthpieces he could, for working musicians.<\/p>\n

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Written with additional materials from the following source:<\/h6>\n
JazzSphere: Bobby Dukoff was born here<\/a><\/h6>\n
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