Combo Alto Tenor

Combo Alto Tenor

Belmonte Combo Sax Stand

Jazz is an American art form whose origins date back to the mid-19th century slave songs and chants. The early 20th century saw the art form blossom as instrumental music in the southern United States, mainly along the Mississippi river and quintessentially New Orleans, Louisiana.

Early instrumental jazz combos of New Orleans varied in instrumentation.  More ofttimes than not, these early jazz groups in general consisted of trumpet, clarinet, trombone, tuba and drums.  This instrumentation became what is known as the “dixieland” combo, making it is way up the Mississippi river to Chicago where the music became extrapolated by jazz greats such as Louis Armstrong.

Dixieland combos may be thought of as groups that play “polyphonic” improvisational music.  Each instrument is independent of each other instrument, with each player creating distinguished musical improvisations based on known melodies, or “tunes” of the day.

The players of these early jazz combos each had a distinguished role within the group.  The trumpet player was depended upon to state the melody of the song, while the clarinet would improvise complex lines above him.  The trombonists role was to improvise or “fill in” the middle register with lines and notes that were necessary to the chord changes of the song itself.  The tuba player (or bass player) in general laid down root notes (and 5ths) of each chord on beats 1 and 3 of each measure.  The tuba served as the harmonic anchor for the group. Lastly, it was the drummers role to keep every one together by keeping a steady beat allround the entirety of the song.

As jazz music invented allround the 1940s and 1950s, jazz combo instrumentation started out to become more standardized.  The jazz “quintet” and “sextet” became very usual for the duration of this time.  The quintet consisted of trumpet and alto (or tenor) sax as the main melodic instruments while the rhythm section (piano, bass and drums) took care of rhythm and harmony. 

The sextet added a trombone to form what basically was a three horn front line, with rhythm section accompaniment.  The extra melodic instrument of the sextet made it possible for the horns to add more harmonic depth to the sound of the group.  Each instrument had a role not only as a melodic voice, but also as an integral factor of the harmonic structure as well.

Modern jazz combos consist of a assortment of instrumentation – 4, 5 horn combos are mutual place.  As the group grows in size however, the name “combo” is substituted by “band” or “little big band”. 

The jazz combo has provided a musical and originative outlet for innumerable musicians over the last 100 years.  The jazz combo proceeds to provide jazz musicians the probability to work together to make music not only as a group but likewise to create their own voice as person jazz improvisers.  It is, and probably always will be, the perfective vehicle for learning the art of jazz improvisation.

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It works
By Patrick Hurley
This product does precisely what is says it will do. This is the firstborn experience with a stand like this, so we have a little difficultness figuring out how to set the saxophone in it (it goes bell first). Once that was figured out, it works very well and is sturdy. The only complaint that we have is that we are looking for a piccolo peg on the one side,but I can not find a Belmonte piccolo peg. It looks like this stand is made by the same company who also develops Hercules stands, so that one might fit.

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Belmont Stand
By Bob
I’ve owned my Belmont sax combo stand for a few years now and am VERY satisfied with it generally. The only problem I’ve had is the fold-out legs tend to become loose and likewise twist. The looseness I may rectify by squeezing the pivot points tight again with pliers. The twisting results in the peg legs getting angled – so my clarinet leans to one side. I’ve twisted the leg back again and re-tightened but it still becomes “The Leaning Tower of Pisa” over time.

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It works for me!
By Lorna McLaughlin
One of my boys plays the tenor sax, the other the clarinet. I wanted a stand that would accomodate both. This does it! It works great!

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