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Sounds like a bari sax subbing for tuba?

DonO. wrote: ↑Thu May 26, 2022 9:54 am Bix was a genius!

Sounds like a bari sax subbing for tuba?

Might be a bass sax. Adrian Rollini is listed as a member of the band. More on Mr. Rollini here.

DonO. wrote: ↑Thu May 26, 2022 9:54 am Sounds like a bari sax subbing for tuba?

Bass sax?? Probably the coolest sound ever!!

Yep. Rollini on bass saxophone.
There’s a Conn stencil on eBay for a reasonable price. I would love to buy it and fix it up really nice, I’m not too terribly bad of a sax player (fingerings/sound production), but it would take extensive at-home playing along with recordings to become a good jazz band bass sax player, and I just don’t know if I have the time left in my life to become proficient at that…that: in addition to the fact that demand for century-old styles of jazz has greatly wained. I was born halfway into the first revival of it in (the 1950s) and worked (playing at festival after festival in the United States in Europe, and pumping out recordings) through the second revival of it. I just don’t think that western civilization is sophisticated enough - anymore - to support a third revival.

There are still Dixieland bands rattling around outside NOLO. I had a Dixieland gig for a while back in my yute. It was much less serious hot Jazz and more like corny standards, but I thought it was fun, and the pay was very good. Gigs like that happen at political rallies and riverboat cruises. I enjoyed playing with the other guys (trumpet, clarinet, bone, banjo, and drum), but once I was supposed to meet them at a dock on the river but I couldn’t find the right dock to save my life and they left without me. After that, the band leader, an Al Hirt style trumpet player, never called me again. I had fun while it lasted though. It’s not serious Jazz but it’s close, and can be a blast.

I still play that stuff, but no longer with rehearsed bands - which work towards perfecting that they do.

Many of us (and the names of those bands are commonly mentioned) have found a handful of bands (youtube, etc.) whereby this music is still performed as "high art" (and I played with just such a band - in the distant past), but "showing up and playing head charts with some good players" is not that. (I did that on a boat, for a few years - until the virus was released. It was OK - and was fun, but it wasn't high art.)

some of the same musicians, but not jazz.
reading a chart and playing in a jazz style.
“cartoon” music for public consumption: