I have always thought the classical music of the saxophone is what
Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and Charlie Parker played, and that
music departments that don't recognize that are failing to see the
world as it is - to almost everyone's detriment.
Chuck
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On Jan 28, 2010, at 12:37 AM, John Howell <[email protected]> wrote:
At 11:55 PM -0500 1/27/10, Ray Horton wrote:
Really, now, how many "legit' sax players do you have around V.
Tech, anyway?
Most of them. Our sax professor is straight classical, and when we
had a jazz sax teacher on the faculty (whom we lost during the first
state budget crisis) they did NOT get along. And I have to say that
both our professor and our best sax students play really beautifully.
But you're right; stereotyping is never a good idea, but it's quick
in order to get an idea across. Back in the '60s my quartet
performed in a special concert with the Cincinnati Symphony, and at
the end of one of our arrangements I had a long, Henry Mancini-like
falloff in the whole orchestra. In rehearsal the principal cellist
looked up and asked me, "Howell, what the hell is a falloff?!!!"
John
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Virginia Tech Department of Music
College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240
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http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html
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of jazz musicians.
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