Chuck Israels wrote:
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.
While that's true, since what they played embodies the vast majority of saxophone music, their approach to music reading and interpretation is quite different from that used by all the other instruments/voices within what is traditionally labeled the "classical" (Dennis' Non-Pop) realm.
And if their saxophone playing is truly the classical music of the saxophone, where do people like Sigurd Rascher fit in? King Curtis? Illinois Jacquet?
Not trying to be argumentative -- truly interested in trying to come to grips with the use of these terms in relation to an instrument which very clearly straddles the two worlds but has a larger life in the jazz world.
And would we then say that Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis are classical trumpeters?
It's an interesting idea to toss around and clearly illustrates how these terms ultimately are meaningless since they can't deal with cross-boundary issues.
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