A Twitter account known as @BassSaxophone followed me today. The account corresponds to ContraBassSaxophone.org, a site with many ads and regular posts and videos about saxophone instruments, not just the contrabass. The "About" tab on the site yields no information about who is involved, and little about what the organization is about, except for this line: "ContraBass Saxophone Instument (sic) Reviews."
In any case, here's a YouTube video embedded at the site — a contrabass sax quartet! The piece, by the German group Deep Schrott, has catchy rhythmic interplay and a key moment at 0:37 when they ooze into a dissonant sonority that suggests the World Saxophone Quartet.
Also on YouTube, you can find a video of the group performing "Stairway to Heaven."
The members of Deep Schrott and the other musicians presented at ContraBassSaxophone.org clearly are entirely serious about the bass sax. For them, it's an important tool for making music, not a novelty instrument. For me, the essence of this sax’s sound is like the end of a cup of Turkish coffee—thick, rich, muddy, desirable in small sips.
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