Klarinet Archive - Posting 000576.txt from 2002/05

From: Kenneth Wolman <kenneth.wolman@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Perfect Pitch
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 18:09:27 -0400

> On Tue, 21 May 2002, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
>
> > Who knows what on earth she was thinking.
> > It's hard for me to laugh at this--I feel rather like I'm laughing at
> > someone you'd see in the subway playing for coin.
> >
> > Ken
>
> Hey, *I* play in the subway [stations] for coin!

My apologies, then, because as I've said here before, I've heard a tiny
handful of people in the trains who are so good (I trust you're among
them??) that I wonder what they're doing down there. I know, making money.
I think I've told about the guy I saw one night several years ago, YATSP
(Yet Another Tenor Sax Player), who got on with a horn that looked like it
had barely survived a day on Omaha Beach, and then proceeded to play like
John Coltrane or Lester Young. I was floored. I rarely give money to
subway musicians because frankly I think, pace what I said above, most of
them suck, but this guy should have been playing the clubs...he was that
good.

Ken

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