Klarinet Archive - Posting 000613.txt from 2005/06

From: Karl Krelove <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: Lester Young - sax holding position
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:19:10 -0400

Are you sure he was actually playing (as opposed to posing) in the Basie
picture?

Karl

Lacy, Edwin wrote:

><<<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.>>>
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>There are photographs of Prez playing seated in the Basie band, in which he holds the saxophone almost parallel to the floor. 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. I'm not sure why he apparently had such different ways of suspending the instrument. Any ideas?
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>Ed Lacy
>University of Evansville
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