The Conn-O-Sax is a mezzo-soprano saxophone like in F build by Charles Gerard Conn in the 1920's. This instrument was created to sound close to the english horn. Here into the hands of James Carter! #rareandstrangeinstruments | Rare And Strange Instruments

Happy 51st birthday to Detroit born saxophone titan #JamesCarter. "I feel that music equals life, that’s the way my teacher always taught me. You just can’t go through life and experience it fully with a set of blinders on. I think there’s tremendous beauty in cross-pollinations of music and influences.” As a young man, Carter attended Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, becoming the youngest faculty member at the camp. He first toured Europe at the age of 16. When he was 19 at the Detroit Institute of Ar