Klarinet Archive - Posting 000074.txt from 1999/08

From: Claudia Zornow <claudia@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] What goes around ... comes back!
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:52:15 -0400

Ken Wolman wrote:

> 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?

Not about jazz per se, but saxophone professor Donald Sinta, who was
my band director one semester at the University of Michigan, said that
he had learned more about phrasing by listening to great singers such
as Leontyne Price than by listening to instrumentalists. Whatever he
did certainly worked for him.

Claudia

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