Oh jeez what the..?

[acti0n_jacks0n]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=T5SH7JFv2yo

What do you guys make of this?

I actually think it is quite cool. He mixes the techniques of sax playing with that of tubulum playing (if you don't know what that is, Google it.. but is a percussion instrument played by 3 blue men..). That almost hollow thud sounds very much like a tubulum.. the shrieky squeels I could do without, though..

Sax, when developing this horn, probably couldn't fathom that it would ever be played in this manner.. but then again he probably couldn't predict jazz, either :)

[zxcvbnm]

The thuds are slap tongued and the squeaks are altissimo and multiphonics. Very difficult to pull off a solo like that. There's classical (well not classical... western art music) that uses effects like those too.

[SaxxMan]

That was interesting.

I've never heard some of those sounds coming out of any sax before.

I bet his neck is sore after a gig with that monster...:D

[themacintrasher]

Wow, he just out James Carter'd James Carter!

[paulwl]

It's kewl, but stuff like this is part of the reason you can hardly get a club gig for a straight-ahead jazz group in NY these days. So much more Artistic, y'know.

It's evident he's enjoying himself, at least after he quits blowing. Before that it's as if he's trying to evoke the feeling of being stuck between two trucks on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

[saxislife]

Heard a piece once called 'Bat' that used the same techniques to imitate the sound of a bat's night. Even the flapping of the wings. Very cool.

[BASS SAXMAN]

Hope he doesn't get paid for that @$#%. I figured he was just screwing around, and then I found an 8 minute video. 8 minutes of @$#%!!

[cleger]

If you liked that, check out Braxton on contra (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=n1VuZbfGsHQ)

[DanPerezSax]

I like him better on this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGWzEIjiCCY&feature=related

Larry Graham of the sax!