Klarinet Archive - Posting 000599.txt from 2005/06

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fbjacobo@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: Lester Young - sax holding position
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:08:59 -0400

Could it be that he was uncomfortable holding it like other sax=20
players? Violinists are famous for being incredibly uncomfortable=20
sitting down. Maybe his particular physiology made him unable to sit=20
"normally" when playing.

Fred Jacobowitz

Kol Haruach Klezmer Band
Ebony and Ivory Duo
On Jun 29, 2005, at 12:01 PM, Lacy, Edwin wrote:

> <<<The story goes, btw., that Prez was given a keyed (wooden) clarinet=20=

> by his father in who's band he played as a child (and from whom he=20
> seems to have inherited the oblique way of holding the tenor) and that=20=

> he did not like it at all.>>>
> =A0
> There are photographs of Prez playing seated in the Basie band, in=20
> which he holds the saxophone almost parallel to the floor.=A0 However,=20=

> if you have ever seen the film of him playing in the studio with Billy=20=

> Holiday, Gerry Mulligan, Roy Eldridge, etc., he holds it in a very=20
> conventional position.=A0 I'm not sure why he apparently had such=20
> different ways of suspending the instrument.=A0 Any ideas?
> =A0
> Ed Lacy
> University of Evansville
> =A0
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