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List Price: $17.98 | | Label: Atlantic / Wea
Salesrank: 235507
Released: November 18, 1997 |
| Our Price: $49.95 |
| Used Price: $7.99 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Sax Pax for a Sax Track Listing:
1. Dog Trot
2. Paris
3. Bird's Lament [In Memory of Charlie Parker]
4. Sandalwood
5. Tout Suite Number 1 in F Major (Movement 1)
6. Tout Suite Number 1 in F Major (Movement 2)
7. Tout Suite Number 1 in F Major (Movement 3)
8. D for Danny [Dedicated to Danny Thompson]
9. New Amsterdam
10. Sea Horse (Piano)
11. Fiesta (Piano)
12. Novette Number 1 in D Flat Major (Movement 1)
13. Novette Number 1 in D Flat Major (Movement 2)
14. Novette Number 1 in D Flat Major (Movement 3)
15. Single Foot
16. Mother's Whistler
17. Present for the Prez. [In Memory Lester Young]
18. Shakespeare City
19. Eec Suite: Golden Fleece
20. Eec Suite: Hymn to Peace
21. Eec Suite: Eec Lied
Editorial Review:
The first new music from Moondog, nee Louis Hardin, in more than 20 years, Sax Pax for A Sax is probably the best introduction to the work of this eccentric former street musician. A joyous outburst, Sax Pax touches on influences ranging from Miles Davis' groundbreaking "Birth of the Cool," sessions ("Dog Trot"), medieval motets ("Tout Suite No. 1 in F Major"), and bebop's harmonic innovations ("Bird's Lament" and "Present for the Prez"). There's even a male chorus showing up occasionally, sounding like they stepped out of a Busby Berkely musical as they jauntily sing the praises of Paris, New York, and London. But the music's precise counterpoint and buoyant inventiveness could only be Moondog; listen and be enthralled. --Steven Mirkin
Sax Pax for a Sax Reviews:
m o o n d o g sax 
2007-09-20 - this music will wake up you up.the group band show us showmanship at its best.to playing piano,harmonica,drums,singing guys its wonderful..
we like this music for people that like jazz,blues or pop..
moondog music in this CD is a blockbuster......
JUST WONDERFUL! AND HIP TOO!!!
2007-05-03 - Great Americana! Hip! Just wonderful!
My one regret is that I didn't have a chance to book this in US before he died. There is a video of this btw.
another great one out of print
2006-04-14 - This is amazing. And no, it's not jazz. This is composed music, and it spits in the face of the academic axiom that concert music has to suck in order to be any good. Truly unique and truly listenable, why isn't this a best-seller?
Sax Choir Arrives
2005-08-29 - I grew up loving Boots Randolph, Ace Cannon, King Curtis, and Johnny and the Hurricanes. I was browsing through the net looking for something on Simon Haram(a well known current European classical Saxophonist) and stumbled on this Album. I have never heard anything like this. Its my music find of the year (I am an iPod addict). This is a Sax dectet (1 Sopranio, 2 Soprano, 2 Altos, 2 Tenors, 2 Baritones and Basses) and then they throw in drums, piano, and bass guitar. My ears feel massaged with sound. I will only quote some review from the net:"The dectet of saxophones plus piano and bass guitar that is London Saxophonic is staggering... sounded like an Arvo Pärt choir jamming with the Bulgarian National Assembly of Throat Singers, yes it was that good." The Independent -- Believe this!!
yes, oh yes, moondog is the best
2002-08-28 - this music was already in my head before I heard it. blocks of chords ascending and exploding in fugal fireworks, plus evocations of an imaginary jungle-jive Paris love affair. unbelievably soulful, funny, charming, surprising. you like moondog! you like moondog! buy moondog!
