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If you're like me then the sax is probably your instrument. It certainly has that magical quality about it. It not only looks great it is a masterpiece of human invention. Above all it can talk. I mean talk in a way that most of us can only ever rarely get close to. It can sound vulgar and rebellious-you can blow your top with the screaming high stuff or get right down and get dirty with those 'honks' and 'growls'. At the same time it can be an intensely lyrical instrument. Either way it is cathartic for both player and listener, capable of reaching inside us to where it matters most. |
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When all is said and done, however, the horn is the ultimate good time instrument. Take the good times they had in the "after hours" sessions in the bars of the ghettos of New York, L.A. Houston and Chicago , where the tenor players would rip up the joint by jumping on to the bar counter to 'strut their stuff' while the rhythm section thrashed out that R n B beat. Sax players like King Curtis, Sam the Man Taylor, Frank Culley, Lynn Hope, Willis Jackson, Big Jay MacNeely, Hal Singer, Rudi Pompilli all 'cut their teeth' this way. So here it is for you-that moment created in miniature as the tenor player 'gets on down' and honks the punters out of the bar. And for those you who might like sounds to go with your figure, here is some suggested listening: Email me for details of price and delivery schedules. |
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Musical references: Atlantic Honkers, Atlantic Records 781 66-1
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