DIG BIG is an all-saxophone ensemble playing original and unique music that celebrates the sonic, textural, and rhythmic aspects of the saxophone. The founding members are prominent and accomplished musicians based in the Boston area, with credentials that extend far beyond this region.

Henley Douglas Jr has been active in the Boston music scene for 20 years. He's performed with top groups in every style of music, including Skin, James Montgomery, The Del Fuegos, Extreme, and Laverne Baker. From 1980-1982 the Henley Douglas Jazz was the house band at Satch's Place in downtown Boston. Members of the group included current jazz notables Jeff Tain Watts, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, and Ron Mcwhorter. He was a founding member of the award winning and national touring act the Heavy Metal Horns. In 1998 he left that group and recorded his first solo CD Hazel's Light. In 1999 he joined Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom, and the same year he founded the Boston Horns. He's a member of the award winning spoken-word/music ensemble Vox Pop. Douglas has recorded with Grammy winner Sean Mullins, Cuban singer/guitarist Patino Vasquez, and Mali cora player Balla Tounkara. His duo projects with vocalist Julie Dougherty led to a recently released CD of originals and jazz standards. Douglas also performs with lengdary storyteller Brother Blue.

Ken Field has performed in the US, Canada, France, Spain, Portugal, and Japan, and has been Composer-in-Residence at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, the Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. Field is a member of the modern music ensemble Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, and has released two solo CDs, Subterranea and Pictures of Motion, of his layered saxophone compositions. He recently released Tokyo in F, a live recording of an improvisational performance in Japan. Field has performed for President Bill Clinton, and with Delfeayo Marsalis and J. Geils vocalist Peter Wolf. His music is also heard regularly on Sesame Street. "One of Boston's true music innovators" (Ken Capobianco, The TAB).

St. Louis native Jeff Robinson is a graduate of Berklee College of Music where he studied with sax legends Bill Pierce and George Garzone. He has toured throughout the Caribbean, Europe, Canada and the States with several jazz, blues, rock and world music ensembles. The award winning Jeff Robinson Trio performs every Sunday at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, MA, and has worked with Amiri Baraka, The Last Poets, Gil Scott Heron, and many others. His recent CD Getting Fixed was released to critical acclaim on the Boston based Honey Boo label. Live Bird, his one man play on Charlie Parker, has been endorsed by Parker's widow and produced by the Gem Theater in Kansas City, Charlie Parker's home town. "It takes a multifaceted individual to conceive and perform a one-person play on Charlie Parker, and Jeff Robinson fits the bill." (The Boston Globe).

Dave Sholl, a Cleveland native long a fixture in the Boston music scene, is most often heard on the tenor sax, but he's ready with the baritone, alto, and soprano when the music calls! Dave, as a member of The Savages, toured extensively coast-to-coast and in Europe with Barrence Whitfield. For the last few years Dave has been with Boston-based Four Piece Suit. Dave's compositions can be heard on both bands' CDs and on the HBO series Sex and the City. He is also a member of the surf band The Fathoms. He's played with Big Momma Thornton, Dr. John, Linda Hopkins, Los Lobos, and many others. Dave is also a visual artist, painting in a style he calls "urban realism". At Dare Family Services' Roxbury facility, Dave began and still conducts The Jam Plan, a music program for inner-city youth.