Klarinet Archive - Posting 000468.txt from 2003/11

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: RE: [kl] Sax, jazz/blues....tone?
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:38:08 -0500

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 09:25:41 -0800 (PST), ormondtoby@-----.net said:

> > 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.

You don't attribute your quote. In fact, it was a mistaken interpretation by
Ed Stuart of previous posts, as Trish has demonstrated.

As you might imagine, clarinet catalogs say very little about the real world.
Anyway, Trish has already cleared the matter up definitively. I suggest you
read her post.

> 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.

But no-one said that jazz listeners, or jazz performers, don't think about
tone.

OK?

Tony
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