Instruments

Sax (Baritone)

The baritone saxophone was originally one of a family of fourteen saxophones of various sizes, created by the Belgian-French instrument maker Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. (A saxophone is a reed instrument with a cone-shaped, keyed metal body.) Toward the bottom end of the group's range, the baritone sax, usually made in the keys of F or E flat, was a moderately popular orchestral and band instrument in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (it is still a mainstay of the marching band), and, as saxophones gained importance in jazz and dance music in the 1920s, became part of some horn sections. The baritone has enjoyed considerable prominence as a jazz solo instrument, both in the hands of some of the genre's leading lights, such as Gerry Mulligan, and of contemporary performers.

Artist Highlights

Artist Active Styles
Serge Chaloff 1930s - 1950s Bop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams 1940s - 1960s Early R&B, Jump Blues
Bill Perkins 1940s - 2000s Cool, Hard Bop, Post-Bop, West Coast Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz, Keyboard
Lars Gullin 1940s - 1970s Bop, Cool
Pat Patrick 1950s - 2000s Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz, Progressive Jazz, Modern Creative
Charlie Fowlkes Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz, Progressive Jazz, Modern Creative
Charles Davis 1950s - 2000s Hard Bop
John Surman 1960s - 2020s Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Composition, Jazz Instrument, Jazz-Rock, Film Score
Pepper Adams 1940s - 1980s Cool, Hard Bop, Post-Bop, Jazz Instrument, Mainstream Jazz, Saxophone Jazz, Trumpet Jazz
Howard Johnson 1960s - 2020s Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz, Free Jazz
Ronnie Cuber 1950s - 2020s Hard Bop
Mats Gustafsson 1980s - 2020s Chamber Music, Free Improvisation, Improvisation, Modern Free, Free Jazz, Noise, Avant-Garde Jazz, Avant-Garde Music, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz, Structured Improvisation
Nick Brignola 1950s - 2000s Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
Gerry Mulligan 1940s - 1990s Cool, Jazz Instrument, Post-Bop, Saxophone Jazz, West Coast Jazz, American Popular Song, Vocal Pop, Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Modern Big Band, Progressive Jazz, Standards
Gary Smulyan 1970s - 2020s Concerto, Post-Bop, Straight-Ahead Jazz
Cecil Payne 1940s - 2000s Bop, Hard Bop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
Dana Colley 1990s - 2000s Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock
Hamiet Bluiett 1960s - 2010s Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Post-Bop, Saxophone Jazz, Free Jazz
Leo Parker 1940s - 1960s Bop, Hard Bop, Jump Blues, Japanese Traditions, Jazz Instrument, Trumpet Jazz
Sahib Shihab 1940s - 1980s Bop, Hard Bop, Soul Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz, Trumpet Jazz
Harry Carney 1930s - 1970s Swing, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz