Klarinet Archive - Posting 000598.txt from 2005/06

From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] RE: Lester Young - sax holding position
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:02:33 -0400

<<<The story goes, btw., that Prez was given a keyed (wooden) clarinet =
by his father in who's band he played as a child (and from whom he seems =
to have inherited the oblique way of holding the tenor) and that he did =
not like it at all.>>>
=A0
There are photographs of Prez playing seated in the Basie band, in which =
he holds the saxophone almost parallel to the floor.=A0 However, if you =
have ever seen the film of him playing in the studio with Billy Holiday, =
Gerry Mulligan, Roy Eldridge, etc., he holds it in a very conventional =
position.=A0 I'm not sure why he apparently had such different ways of =
suspending the instrument.=A0 Any ideas?
=A0
Ed Lacy
University of Evansville
=A0

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