These responses have missed whatever point I probably shouldn't have
bothered trying to make here, and that was that there is so little
significant repertoire for "classical" saxophone, despite the
existence of a number of fine players in that style, that favoring
that style in music departments over the jazz style is the equivalent
of hiring a jazz violinist over a classical one. There is a
disprportion of repertoire and interest. Anyone for a jazz oboe
teacher?
Chuck
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On Jan 28, 2010, at 3:30 PM, dhbailey <[email protected]
> wrote:
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.
--
David H. Bailey
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