Klarinet Archive - Posting 000789.txt from 2002/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Percy Grainger and Sydney Bechet
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 06:13:46 -0500

At 06:36 PM 3/26/2002 -0800, James Snell wrote:
>Bill Housmann said:
><Nanny goat vibrato?" Apparently, you have been listening to Sidney
><Bechet. He is not necessarily representative of the best sound a soprano
><sax can make, although as a jazz improvisor he was one of the few who could
><keep up with Louis Armstrong. Sidney did start out as a clarinetist, you
>know.
>
>..and played a bent soprano. Maybe going around the bend caused the
>vibration.

I've always seen him pictured with a STRAIGHT soprano. Of course, a lot of
his NOTES were bent!

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.net
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