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Now this sounds cool: I am a Grammy-winning concert saxophonist. That's right. Last night, William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and Experience, a CD on which I am the saxophonist, won three Grammy's, including Best Classical Album and Best Contemporary Classical Composition. I'm one of only a handful of concert saxophonists (you too, Chris) to have won the accolade--Robert Black being perhaps the most recognizable, winning with the Chicago Pro Musica Orchestra's recording of William Walton's Façade. I felt like Robbie McEwen taking Stage 5 at the 2005 TdF.

Correction: My colleague on the Bolcom recording, saxophonist Christopher Blossom, debunks earlier claims (buzz kill, dude), which stemmed from a source who will remain unnamed, and provides evidence of other Grammy achievements among concert saxophonists: 1977 - Best Engineered Recording - Classical - Ravel: Bolero (Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony); 1980 - Best Classical Album; Best Opera Recording - Berg: Lulu (Complete) - Pierre Boulez conducting the Orchestre de l'Opera de Paris (solos: Teresa Stratas, Yvonne Minton, Franz Mazura, Toni Blankenheim); 1985 - Best New Artist (Classical) Chicago Pro Musica (Bob Black); 1996 - Best Orchestral Performance - Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the San Francisco Symphony - Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (Scenes from the Ballet)