Sax in the city
An early spring day in 1993, I boarded SAS flight SK907 with destination Newark, New Jersey. Mission – to acquire a new saxophone. Preferably a Selmer Mark VI. Throughout my Berklee years I stayed loyal to my «Dolnet» tenor. Inherited from my grandfather, one of whose many achievements was to co-found Sandefjord big band. But over the course of my 3 year stay at Berklee, I was confronted several times by my teachers concerning my saxophone and the condition of it. «You need a professional instrument, and a Mark VI is the solution to that problem». Beeing the rookie that I was back then, I took the advices dead serious and never questioned it. This was back in the day before the internet was a household name, meaning acquiring general information about such a horn, its whereabouts and its condition were close to impossible. Even so, it appeared quite obvious to me that New York was most likely the place for such an iconic instrument to be obtained. Add to the fact that John Coltrane, ...
