[jerumulliganrules]

Seems we owe someone a heartfelt Happy Belated Birthday! Adolphe Sax was born on November 6, 1814.

I believe we all owe him a raising of a glass!!!

We should perhaps be thinking ahead to 2014, right?

 

[mephipps]

Phew,thought it was for a different Adolph........

 

[jerumulliganrules]

Phew,thought it was for a different Adolph........

Oh, I definitely took my time with the spelling.......

 

[milandro]

actually his name was Antoine-Joseph..........

 

[mcudahy]

CBS Sunday Morning did a little birthday thing for him:

 

[maddenma]

Thanks for that! Thumbs up!

 

[evan1]

JNR _ WHere are YOU ! You remember which Adolph right ?

 

[Toot Sweet!]

Phew,thought it was for a different Adolph........

Sax' first name was actually Antoine ...

 

[milandro]

even better, Antoine-Joseph

 

[mcudahy]

CBS Sunday Morning did a little birthday thing for him:

This segment has to have been written by a sax player (who likes jazz). Includes clips by Paul Desmond, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Lisa Simpson, Clarence Clemons... and no mention of Kenny G.

 

[mcudahy]

even better, Antoine-Joseph

Okay, but he went by "Adolphe," right? Billie's name was Eleanora. (I wonder why a guy with enough sense to invent the saxophone would choose Adolphe? He coulda picked anything; what's wrong with Tony Sax? Or Tony-Joe Sax? Not French enough, I guess.)

 

[milandro]

who knows why he chose to go by another name than the one that he was given? Surely he liked it that much to call his son Adolphe Edouard

 

[bjornblomberg]

who knows why he chose to go by another name than the one that he was given? Surely he liked it that much to call his son Adolphe Edouard

Remember, it was more than a hundred years later the name went out of fashion...