Klarinet Archive - Posting 000870.txt from 1999/10

From: GCalzati@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Sax Advice
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 03:45:04 -0400

In a message dated 10/27/99 5:12:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
bill_chris@-----.net writes:

> The advice I've gotten so far that made the most sense
> to me was to get a tenor, since it plays in the same key as my clarinet
and
> is just as common in the jazz band as alto, and I could play out of the
> same jazz books and jazz charts without transposing on clarinet and sax.
> Anyone else have any thoughts on this subject?
>
For Jazz, I play the tenor sax. But not for the reasons you suggested. I
play it simply because I prefer the sound. ( I have an alto, tenor and
soprano sax. Out of the three, I play the tenor and soprano the most because
I just feel like I can sing better on them!) (The sound of my alto is driving
me nuts at the moment!)

I suggest you listen to players of both the alto and tenor saxes in the style
of whatever music you would like to play and then decide.

Kirk Whalum, Cannonball Adderly, Ben Webster, and Sonny Rollins just to name
a few are tenor players and ones whom I listened to when trying to capture "a
sound".
Kirk Whalum's sound is gorgeous!

Also "Jazz" is such a broad term. There are so many types of Jazz out there
it's hard to know what style you would want to play.

I prefer playing the old standards, which once upon a time, was considered
standard Jazz. But since then the music has evolved and includes many more
different sounds, textures and techniques.

Best of Luck!

Georgette Calzati
Windsong Music
Picc, Flute, Clarinet, Tenor, Alto & Soprano Sax

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