{"id":339,"date":"2008-07-15T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2009-08-10T16:00:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T23:00:30","slug":"the-sax-brass-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2008\/the-sax-brass-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sax & Brass Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years ago my repair tech in Halifax, Layne Francis<\/a>, showed me a really beautiful hard cover, colour photo book titled: The Sax & Brass Book: saxophones, trumpets and trombones in jazz, rock and pop<\/em>.\u00a0 The publisher was Balafon Books in the UK. Copyright \u00a9 1998. I managed to find a copy of the book at the Fredericton, NB Chapters<\/a> store in the clearance bin, because the chain had bought up\u00a0boxes of them as the book\u00a0went out of print.<\/p>\n

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Well good news, it seems that since June 2003, Hal Leonard has been publishing this little gem of\u00a0book, albeit in paperback. Here in Canada it seems to be currently available through Chapters.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The book is a wonderful collection of (mostly) colour photographs that capture\u00a0the history of the saxophone in popular music from the ’20s through the ’90s. (The trumpets and trombones are mentioned only in the beginning of the book, and in passing later on. The book is really mostly\u00a0about saxophones.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

The\u00a0famous players of the decades; the horns; the advertisements\u00a0for the horns; the styles of\u00a0music, they’re all explored in this pictorial collection that any horn fanatic would drool over…Especially any vintage horn enthusiast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I do feel it necessary to point out that there is one glaring error that I noticed.\u00a0On page 69 Anthony Braxton is pictured holding a contrabass clarinet, which is incorrectly ID’d as a bass saxophone.\u00a0Other than that, the book is not only a pleasant and interesting read, but also a\u00a0pretty good\u00a0resource.<\/p>\n

The back portion of the book\u00a0contains a 20 page\u00a0sax and brass directory, which lists the major (and not so major) manufacturers, and some of their stencil names. It gives some of the history for each of the companies, and also a serial number listing.<\/p>\n

All in all, it is a nice coffee table book, and a nice addition to\u00a0your hard copy music library.<\/p>\n

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…this is just my blog<\/em>. <\/span> My \u201creal\u201d <\/b> website is<\/span> www.bassic-sax.info.<\/a> If you\u2019re looking for <\/span> sax info<\/strong>,<\/span> you should check it out too.<\/span>There\u2019s lots<\/em> there! <\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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