[1] They were based in Santa Cruz, California[2] and were active from about 1980 till some time in the 1990s.
[3] The group was notable for its contrabass saxophone, which is 203 centimetres tall with a 43-centimetre-diameter bell.
The instrument, played by the group's leader and founder Don Stevens, was formerly owned by Robert Seaton of Louisville, Kentucky, a noted civil engineer and amateur musician who played the sax on WHAS big band programs in the 1920s and 1930s.
Mr. Seaton found the contrabass saxophone in a shop in Newark, New Jersey in the 1960s.
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