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When Belgian Instrument Maker Adolphe Sax stuck a reed into a conical brass tube and patented the hybrid in 1846, he contributed a new instrument to the military band. In time his saxophone traveled across the Atlantic, became a mainstay of jazz. But the saxophone has always had its strict classical disciples. Last week one of the best and most influential of them, France's Marcel Mule, made his U.S. debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and convincingly demonstrated just how good the serious alto sax can sound...
...Norman Sax, of Los Angeles, got a 14-year-old patient, a Pekinese named Duke, with his lungs so awash that the least exertion set him to puffing and wheezing. The diagnosis was obvious: congestive heart failure. Dr. Sax injected a diuretic to help clear the fluid from Duke's lungs, prescribed half a grain of digitalis daily for the heart. To ease Duke's last days and his owner's anguish, Dr. Sax sent an oxygen tent to the house for use in wheezing attacks, kept him dosed with cortisone. Duke wheezed through 2½ more...
CAROL STEVENS is a deep-purple (D below middle C) jazz singer who wears wicked black sheaths and Vampira makeup, and is visually and musically the most striking of the new girl singers. Her audiovisual analogue would be a bass sax wrapped in a lace nightie. Using a vocabulary of oo's, ee's and ah's, she sings one entire side of her first LP (That Satin Doll; Atlantic) almost completely without words. This could sound like a cat trapped in a rain barrel, but somehow manages not to. In the best...
...poet and the jazzman met in a San Francisco basement, aptly named The Cellar, to discuss a fusion of the arts. "In Now with Winter," said the poet, "we try something slow and soft. In Artifacts we want a sax solo, like the thrill is gone...
...your ax in the form of your sax...