Klarinet Archive - Posting 000055.txt from 1999/08

From: Ken Wolman <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] What goes around ... comes back!
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 00:59:18 -0400

At 08:08 PM 8/2/99 -0400, you wrote:
>At 02:02 PM 8/2/1999 -0000, you wrote:
>>Sometimes our kids surprise us. It's great.

>But if you asked Frank Sinatra where HE learned to phrase, he would tell
>you, "Tommy Dorsey!" Still, it is good advice. Especially in saxophone
>playing, you have to THINK "singing" to make it come out right.

I wish I could remember sources...but it seems to me that many of the great
jazz instrumentalists credit their sense of phrasing to hearing vocalists,
and trying to somehow capture that phrasing and sound on an instrument made
of wood or metal. Can anyone help me out here?

At the same time, Ella Fitzgerald I believee was often compared to a jazz
instrument, particularly when she got into scat-singing.

Ken

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