Tenor Bari Sax

Tenor Bari Sax

Bari is the top-of-the-line brand for synthetic reeds. Synthetic reeds will commonly last assorted times longer than established reeds. They may still be chipped or cracked, but they will not wear out like traditionalisti cane. The reeds are formatted to sound as similar to cane reeds as possible, but there is a slight difference.

The saxophone division in a huge band comprises of 5 players – two altos, two tenors and one baritone sax. In a traditionalisti big band setup, the saxes are located in the initial (front) row of three rows of horn players. The trombones and trumpets are found in the rows directly behind the saxes.

Saxophones are considered agile instruments, much like the clarinet and flute. They are competent to play fast lines or carry out effects that can not be achieved so without apparent effort on a brass instrument. This characteristic gives them the capacity to cover very fast passages within the ensemble – passages that would be too difficult for the brass section to pull off.

Melodic Roles

Saxophones are many times called on to state the melody of a huge band composition or arrangement. Playing in unison gives them the power to cut through punches and concord played by the brass section. When stating the melody as a section (i.e. 4-5 portion voicings) the lead alto player ought to project the lead line so it may be heard above other instrumental action going on within the arrangement at any given time.

Saxes may also be coupled with other instruments to manufacture a homogeneous sound. Altos are many times combined with trumpet, while tenor saxes are most often found sharing a melody with one or more trombones. These melodic couplings work well because the timbre of trumpet and trombone are similar to the alto and tenor respectively. Baritone sax at times plays melody alone, or coupled with bass trombone.

Harmonic Roles

Because the sax division covers a wide range, it lends itself well to supplying harmoniousness and harmonic “pads” to a big band arrangement or composition. In ballads, for example, the saxes are oftentimes written as lush voicings that provide all the necessary notes of a chord. They are applied in this manner within an arrangement as background to a soloist, or as counter melody to another instrument.

Solos and Solis

The tenor saxophone is one of the more standard solo instruments in jazz, so it only makes sense that tenor solos are written rather regularly allround the big band music repertoire. Although any of the saxes are called upon at one time or another for solos, the tenor seems to get more improvised solos than the others. Baritone sax solos are written sparingly allround huge band literature. Depending on the level of skill of the players, solo segmentations may be passed around so that good soloists – even bari sax players – have a chance to shine.

Sax solis take place when the saxophone section is featured by itself by playing a composed jazz “solo”. A soli is most often composed in four or five percentage concord that is voiced for the entire section. The lead line is played by Alto 1, while the rest of the section is voiced beneath the lead line and follows in rhythmic unison. In a four percentage setting, the bari sax player will often double the alto melody at the octave.

The saxophone division is an integral share of any big band in a assortment of ways. Brass players may complain that the saxophones are written too a great deal of solos, but it is hard to beat a terrific saxophone division ripping through a difficult Thad Jones or Don Menza soli. As they say, if you can’t beat them, join them!

Tenor Bari Sax Pic

Tenor Bari Sax Picture

Tenor Bari Sax Photo

Tenor Bari Sax Photo

Most helpful client reviews

0 of 0 persons found the following review helpful.
Easy To Play
By Colin Deas
This reed gives me a bright sound and was actually easy to play right out of the packaging. Well worth the cash (which was low equated to other brands).

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Not the gentlest
By A. Gibson
The Bari reeds are more perfectly and systematically built than the fibercane-type ones.
However they are rougher on the tongue than the fibercane type, which simulates the ultimately-gentle cane with a great deal of success.
5 stars for being a good reed, but it’s not one the intermediate recreational player would want to use to play lots of songs in a row.

0 of 0 persons found the following review helpful.
Great way to go – low maintenance long lasting reed
By AmazonReviewer01
I have a tenor and alto sax and started using these when they didn’t have any reeds in the size I wanted at the local music shop. The guy said he’d refund my cash if I didn’t like them. So with not one thing to loose I took one home. I applied it for 3 months playing for when it comes to 2 hours each day. Yeah, I was hooked. They are louder than cane reeds and don’t require any set-up like getting them moist before you use them. You may pick up your sax and play. These reeds don’t chip or require the attention of cane and they last longer. For the price of a box of reeds you get more playing time with less hassle. Buy one and see. I’ve converted to these and haven’t looked back.

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