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28Jan 2012
By DAN BILAWSKY, Published: February 27, 2011 The peaceful, John Lennon-like face on the cover ofInner Flights is merely a mask. Behind that calm exterior is a musician with killer instincts and serious chops. Sure, saxophonist Benjamin Drazen can be calm and graceful when he wants to, as he is on Inner Flights' closing track, "Polka Dots And Moonbeams," but more often than not, Drazen takes to the skies in spectacularly soaring flights. On his debut album, Drazen dives head first into music of a mystical nature ("Prayer ...
Have you ever wondered why most Selmer Paris saxophone serial number charts start at 750? Even the chart published by Selmer itself starts at 750. Did Henri Selmer really decide to start saxophones at 750 or are there 750 mysterious saxophones unaccounted for in these published charts? The answer is the latter. The first 750 saxophones that bear the name H. Selmer are indeed left off of these charts. In this article, I explain why this is and what these first 750 saxophones are.
There are two distinct early (pre-modele 22) Selmer Paris saxophones. I call the first series t Read More...