Tuesday Tune...Hooked me on the sax!

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Re: Tuesday Tune...Hooked me on the sax!

Oct 21, 2025, 7:56 AM

Good one!

I made my living playing a King Super 20B Silver Bell tenor saxophone many years ago during the height of R&B, but even though that particular instrument was rare, expensive and considered the Stradivarius of tenor saxophones for the type of music, I never had the talent needed to make any list of "Greatest" of the large number of artists that could make that horn sound so good.

Here's one of the all-time greats - Cannonball Adderly - playing his alto (not the larger tenor version) Super 20:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi0OMG4xAko&list=RDbi0OMG4xAko&start_radio=1>

And here's a tribute to the King Super 20 and a sample of the sound played by someone who is more of a historian than artist. This example has a silver neck, but not a silver bell. The silver bell was unique and could be made to sound as raunchy or as smooth as an artist was capable of making it, but never as smooth and sweet as a Selmer Mark VI. The Super 20 was loud and raucus:

https://youtu.be/0B1LJ7pifqc

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