At 11:58 AM -0500 1/28/10, 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.
There are two "worlds," the classical world and the jazz world (and of course offshoots and crossovers from and into both). I don't think there SHOULD be, but there are. And both worlds have players who are consummate artists and others who are duffers and a whole bunch in the middle who get by. (The venerable bell curve, you know, which is a pretty accurate representation of both human abilities and human capabilities.) But with the differences in mouthpiece, reed selection, and tonal concept, the dividing line is probably more obvious among saxists than with most other instruments.
My opinion, of course. John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech Department of Music College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[email protected]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html "We never play anything the same way once." Shelly Manne's definition of jazz musicians. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
