Klarinet Archive - Posting 001221.txt from 1997/09

From: "Lou Polcari" <polcari@-----.net>
Subj: Re: no one sounds like.........
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 10:28:46 -0400

> > On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Charles wrote:
> > There are people that can play higher, lower, faster, louder and better
jazz, but no one
> > gets a more personalized, virtually unmistakenly individualized sound
(style) than:
> >
> > Bill Harris
> > George Roberts
> > Urbie Green
> > Louis Armstrong
> > Buddy Defranco
> > Tommy Dorsey
> > Bobby Hackett
>
> Art Tatum
> Joe Pass
> Django Reinhart
> Dave Brubeck
> Chuck Mangione
> Thelonius Monk
> Manhattan Transfer (can we consider them as one?)
> Charlie Mingus
> Oscar Perterson
> Miles Davis
> Clifford Brown
> "Rashan" Roland Kirk
> Cannonball Adderly
> Nat Adderly
> Lionel Hampton
> Arturo Sondoval
>
> I could think of at least 10 more that *I* can recognize with
> a 90% accuracy rate within 2 or 3 measures, and I'm not all
> that much of a jazz afficionado. Your list can get long real fast!

Dexter Gordon
Charlie Parker
Wayne Shorter
Lee Morgen
Art Blakey
Coltrain
Woody Shaw
Ornet Colman
Bill Evens
Eddie Gomez
Chick Corea
STanly Clark
Mike Brecker..........