Bari-sax in Music

As I said earlier, I love music and I play the bari-sax. The bari-sax is the largest, commonly played saxohpone. It is known as being essential to the big band jazz band which is one of my favourites styles of music. One amzing group is the Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Band from the United States. Also, the saxophone is a Belgian invention by I believe it is Adolf Sax, and you should all be very proud of that. One song that features the bari-sax is Moanin. Here's one version done by Charles Mingus.

Anyways, I hope you find this all a little bit interesting, and you don't have to listen to the whole song. I realize it's a little bit long.

Doug's Profile

Douglas O'Brien (18)
I'm originally from Flin Flon, Manitoba, but at the age of 3 I moved to Thompson, Manitoba. I used to live with my younger brother, my older sister and my parents, but I'm currently spending a year in Belgium on a Rotary International Youth Exchange Program.
Prior to coming to Belgium, I had wanted to study music and education to become a math/music teacher. Now, I think I want to study language and linguistics in order to teach French and Spanish, but I'm still unsure.
My hobbies include music and reading. I've played the piano for about 9 years and the baritone saxophone for about 5 years. I love sitting down at a piano and playing for a couple of hours. As for the bari-sax, I played in a symphonic orchestra and a jazz band at my school. I love playing in a jazz band and I miss it a lot. I also played in a sax quintet with four of my friends. I've dreamt of being a great musician.
As for reading, I do it in my free time. For example, when there are commercials on TV, I'll read a few comic strips until my show comes back on and I also read while I eat lunch. Before I go to sleep, I enjoy reading a novel until I become tired. I enjoy reading fantasy a lot. I was reading one series called The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan which consists of about twelve books and thousands of pages. Sadly though, he died before completing his series.
I would say my proudest moment would be when I received the Governor's General Award, the award given for achieving the highest grade point average in the graduating class. It was a lot of work, but it'll pay off.
Since coming to Belgium, my French has improved a lot which leads me closer to my personal goal of learning one language every ten years.
My motto is never give up.

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