Brown Motion

The title at first glance might seem suggestive of something lurid perhaps if you have a fertile mind like mine.  Phonetically rhyming ideas like a nubile Kate Winslet on a big ship on open ocean come to mind but it is much more intriguing than that.  I recently in my early morning navigation of the WWW stumbled on this.  A dude make that a famous maestro of classical music from India playing Carnatic music on the Saxophone.  Hence the title. To put all this in context - a brief primer on the Saxophone.  Invented by a Belgian fella called Adolphe Sax it is a wind instrument made popular in the early 20th century by the birth of jazz music.  While the Sax as the saxophone came to be referred in shorthand is largely associated with big brass bands and the music of the south it has found several artistic interpretations and use in other genres such as Carnatic. A quick primer on Carnatic - it is the classical music of south India (result of a vague bou...