Instrumentos y boquillas con los que tocaron saxofonistas de reconocida trayectoria básicamente en el jazz. Información basada en datos de grabaciones y publicaciones extraídas de sitios especializados de la Web.
Julian "Cannonball" Adderley
King Super 20
- mpcs: New York era HR Meyer -
(sources: public record, "Coast to Coast")
Lee Allen
Buescher 400 "Top Hat & Cane," MKVI (most likely)
- mpcs: HR Berg Larsen, stock Selmer, Brilhart Ebolin -
(source: anecdotes, Pete Thomas & John Laughter, alt.music.saxophone)
Gene Ammons
Dolnet
Martin Handcraft (sans front F!)
Conn
Selmer Mark VI
- mpcs: Brilhart Ebolin -
(sources: "Gentle Jug", "Goodbye," Preachin," photos, oral history, public record)
Albert Ayler
Buffet Crampon SuperDynaction
(sources: album photos)
Gary Bartz
Selmer Mark VI
- mpcs: Selmer short shank Soloist? -
(sources: "Goodbye")
Don Byas
Conn 10M
Also seems to be seen with King and Selmer in later photos
- mpcs: Otto Link, Bob Dukoff? -
(sources: http://www.apoloybaco.com/donbyasbiografia.htm
http://members.tripod.com/~hardbop/images/byas.jpg
http://art.towerrecords.com/coverart.asp?S=1352343&X=178&Y=178)
James Carter
Very custom silverplated Conn "Chu Berry," with altered keywork & 30M neck?
Yamaha Custom
(sources: "Conversin' with the Elders," live performance NYC, ~2001)
Clarence Clemmons
King Super 20
(sources: "Born to Run")
Ornette Coleman
Grafton (plastic)
"a Selmer that goes down to a low Concert C" (with Berg or Bundy mpc)
(sources: "Shape of Jazz to Come," public record, http://user.chollian.net/~silvmoon/patm/article/db53.html,
http://www.freep.com/entertainment/music/oless19_20040319.htm)
John Coltrane
Selmer Balanced Action (tenor)
- mpcs: Otto Link Tonemaster and HR Otto Link -
(sources: public record)
Junior Cook
Selmer Mark VI
(source: http://www.spun.com/amgcover/music/large/d2/55/d25518hsll8.jpg)
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
Selmer Balanced Action?
- mpcs: metal Otto Link? -
(sources: photos)
Jesse Davis
Conn 6M or 26M
(rare neck, double-socketed w/topside octave key)
King Zephyr Special
King Super 20
(sources: photo: http://www.hopper-management.com/hires/jd_1cl.jpg, http://jazz.music.com, http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/davis_jesse_jazz_/235098/album.jhtml)
Eric Dolphy
Selmer Mark VI
- mpcs: Brilhart Personaline? -
(sources: "Other Aspects" [LP])
Chico Freeman
Selmer Mark VII?
(sources: "Tangents")
Stan Getz
Selmer Mark VI
- mpcs: HR Otto Link, HR Meyer -
(sources: public record, photos, http://www.du.edu/lamont/Getz.html)
Benny Golson
Selmer Mark VI
- mpcs: Otto Link "Tonemaster" -
(sources: "...and The Philadelphians," "Moanin'")
Dexter Gordon
Conn "Chu Berry"? (see, "Rides again?")
Conn 30M (early career, late '40s -- see "Settin' the Pace")
Conn 10M (1960s)
Selmer Mark VI (1970s & later)
- mpcs: Bob Dukoff BD Hollywood, metal Otto Link -
(sources: public record, photos, album covers)
Wardell Gray
Conn "Chu Berry" and/or 10M
King Super 20
mpcs: HR Otto Link (New York era), more
(sources: "Wardell Gray/Stan Hasselgard," "Memorial," public record)
Johnny Griffin
King Super 20
Selmer Super Action 80 Series II
(source: "A Blowing Session" - photo, oral history)
Gigi Gryce
- mpcs: metal Otto Link -
(sources: "Clifford Brown Sextet in Paris")
Craig Handy
Selmer Mark VI
(sources: "One")
Herbert Hardesty
Goldplated Selmer Mark VI
- mpcs: Fla. Otto Link (silverplate) -
(source: personal exp.)
Coleman Hawkins
Strasser Marigaux Lemaire "Coleman Hawkins" model?
Selmer Balanced Action
- mpcs: metal Otto Link -
(sources: SML advertisements, public record)
Joe Henderson
Selmer Mark VI
- mpcs: Selmer Short Shank Soloist -
(source: interviews, photos, public record)
Vincent Herring
Yanagisawa
(sources: live performance, NYC, 2000)
Johnny Hodges
Conn 6M or 26M
Buescher 400
Martin Committee
- mpcs: Brilhart Tonalin? -
(sources: photos, "...and His Alto Sax," public record)
Reggie Houston
Selmer Series III (ts, as, sop)
- mpcs: metal Vandoren, JVW Meyer, Bari -
(sources: personal exp.)
Illinois Jacquet
Selmer Balanced Action or SBA
- mpcs: Otto Link Tonemaster? -
(sources: "How High the Moon")
Clarence Johnson III
Yamaha Custom
- mpcs: Otto Link SuperTonemaster -
(sources: live performance, New Orleans)
Louis Jordan
Selmer Balance Action or SBA*
- mpcs: Brilhart Tonalin -
(sources: "Rock 'N Roll Call," "Just Say Moe!")
*Note: Jordan was a Martin endorser, but I've not seen a photograph of him with a Martin.
Harold Land
Conn 10M
Conn 30M
- mpcs: metal Berg Larsen? -
(sources: "Brown & Roach Incorporated," "West Coast Blues")
Roger Lewis
Silverplated Selmer Mark VI (baritone)
- mpcs: HR Berg Larsen (baritone) -
(sources: personal exp.)
Charles Lloyd
Goldplated Conn "Chu" or "Pre-Chu" tenor
Powell C flute
Haynes alto flute
Artley bass flute
- set-up: Otto Link 7*, Hemke #3 -
(sources: Downbeat article by Tom Conrad, April 1994, p. 34-37)
Thanks to "theFredX" for this one!
Branford Marsalis
Selmer Mark VI or SBA
- mpcs: Otto Link, Guardala -
(sources: "Renaissance," http://www.saxlessons.com/playerssetups.htm)
Jackie McLean
Conn 6M or 26M
King Super 20?
Buffet Crampon SDA
King Zephyr (later model, with single eye strap hook)
- mpcs: metal Otto Link, among others -
(sources: "A Long Drink of the Blues," "Lights Out," "A Fickle Sonance," "Lee Way")
Hank Mobley
King Super 20
Selmer Mark VI
(sources: "Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers," "Soul Station")
David Murray
Vintage Selmer
- mpcs: Berg Larsen? -
(sources: "Live at Sweet Basil)
David "Fathead" Newman
Selmer Mark VI alto
Buffet Crampon tenor
- mpcs: Meyer HR for alto -
(sources: live performancel; "It's Mister Fathead," )
Charlie Parker
Conn 6M (probably transitional - see LP photo for "The Original Recordings...")
Conn 26M
King Super 20 ("Bird Flies Deep," "Encores," "...Carnegie Hall")
Buescher True-Tone? ("Encores, v.2")
Martin?/Martin Stencil?
Grafton plastic
Selmer Mark VI
- mpcs: Brilhart Tonalin, metal Otto Link, -
(sources: LP photos, CD jacket photos, photos around the web)
Maceo Parker
Selmer Mark VI
- mpcs: customized vintage Brilhart Ebolin? -
(sources: public record, http://maceo.com/news.html)
Houston Person
Selmer Mark VI
- mpcs: Lawton? -
(sources: "Blue Velvet")
Sam Rivers
SML, late 50s or early 60s model most likely
(Source: "Fuchsia Swing Song")
Sonny Rollins
Conn "Chu Berry" or 10M
Selmer Mark VI
- mpcs: metal Berg Larsen -
(sources: "Worktime," "East Broadway Rundown," "Tenor Madness," "Vol.2," more)
Charlie Rouse
Selmer Mark VI
- mpcs: metal Otto Link? -
(sources: "Epistrophy" [under Rouse's name])
Archie Shepp
Goldplated Selmer Mark VI
- mpcs: Otto Link metal, probably Florida -
(sources: "Four for Trane" [LPs], "Fire Music," "Live in San Francisco")
Frederick Sheppard
King Super 20 (ts)
Nickelplated Conn "Chu Berry" (as)
- mpcs: vintage Vandoren Jumbo Java, Ralph Morgan hand-engraved -
(sources: personal exp.)
Wayne Shorter
Bundy (Aristocrat Type) - see photo on "Best of Wayne Shorter" (Bluenote LP),
also "Adam's Apple" (cd cover)
Selmer Mark VII
Selmer Super Action 80
Selmer Mark VI
Selmer SBA (Current)
(sources: http://www.melmartin.com/html_pages/Interviews/shorter.html, public record,
Barnes & Noble Interview.)
Buster Smith
Conn 6M, rare "New York" neck, probably transitional (same as that Parker is seen with, in some photos?)
(sources: "The Legendary Buster Smith")
Sonny Stitt
Selmer Mark VI (as)
- mpcs: early metal Otto Link
(sources: "Just in Case You Forgot...," "Boss Tenors")
Mark Turner
Selmer Balanced Action or SBA
- mpcs: Selmer short shank Soloist? -
(sources: "Dharma Days")
Stanley Turrentine
Gold plated Selmer Mark VI
- mpcs: early metal Otto Link (with soldered on spline) -
(sources: photos, "Hustlin'")
Ben Webster
Selmer Balanced Action
- mpcs: early metal Otto Link Tonemaster -
(sources: public record)
Lester Young
Conn Pan American
silverplated Conn "Chu Berry"
- mpcs: metal Otto Link -
(sources: public record)
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