Klarinet Archive - Posting 000465.txt from 2003/11

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: RE: [kl] Sax, jazz/blues....tone?
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 12:25:41 -0500

> that tone is not a big issue when playing jazz

Take a look at any clarinet catalog. They all claim that certain
clarinet models have "the big jazz tone" that (allegedly) every jazz
player wants.

Tone (or sound or timbre or whichever name you prefer) is most certainly
an issue in jazz --- just as it is in klezmer, pops, TV commercials,
classical, film scores, Turkish, romantic ballads, etc etc etc. If you
read reviews or album notes about (say) Pete Fountain, his tone is
usually one of the first qualities discussed. Whether titles such as
"Big Jazz Tone" or "Pure Classical Tone" or "Broken Hearted Country
Ballad Tone" are capable of definition or praiseworthy is a separate
topic, but to say that jazz players and jazz listeners don't think about
tone is not accurate, no matter which instrument you are discussing.

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