Klarinet Archive - Posting 000066.txt from 1999/08

From: "MARY A. VINQUIST" <kenshaw@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Jazz Phrasing
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 10:37:35 -0400

Bill Hausmann wrote:

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

Sinatra said he learned all he knew from Mabel Mercer.
If you don't know her singing, RUN, don't walk, to the used record =

stores and get everything they have. Nobody else comes close.

Unfortunately, the only Mercer reissue on CD is a Cole Porter =

collection made when she was way past her prime. Look for the =

LPs with the Alec Wilder songs.

Best regards.

Ken Shaw

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