Klarinet Archive - Posting 000087.txt from 1999/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Jazz Phrasing
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 23:29:38 -0400

At 08:04 AM 8/3/1999 -0400, Ken Shaw wrote:
>Bill Hausmann wrote:
>
>>>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.
>
>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.
>
For the record:

"I've said this many times, but it can never be said too often: a singer
can learn, should learn, by listening to musicians. My greatest teacher
was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy
Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone."

Frank Sinatra, in his forward to George T. Simon's book "The Big Bands"
(Schirmer Books, New York, 1981 (4th edition))

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is too loud.

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