Klarinet Archive - Posting 000076.txt from 2007/03

From: kurtheisig@-----.net
Subj: Re: [kl] Hearing is believing, or is it?
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:41:11 -0500

Ellis,

Within THREE months---WOW!=20

We've had a couple of trumpet students that grew up in the stores and were =
later clerks for us, they would amaze us by naming all of the players in th=
e trumpet sections on different cuts. Memory? Hearing? I just enjoyed and r=
elied on their abilities. One of them, Kieth Staufer (sp?), wound up playin=
g co-lead with Ray Charles.

We would play cuts all of the time for them, and they would just rattle all=
the names off. They hardly ever missed.

Kurt

-----Original Message-----
>From: Ellis Johnson <ellisjohnson@-----.com>
>Sent: Mar 5, 2007 6:45 AM
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] Hearing is believing, or is it?
>
>Not only is it possible to identify the musician, but the different
>styles of that musician. My friends used to quiz me on Benny Goodman,
>and 80-90% of the time, I could correctly place a Goodman recording
>within three months of its recording date.
>
>Also, just to agree with the others, musicians have a unique quality
>to their sound, just as you have a unique quality to your voice, and
>the more you play, the more that becomes part of you. Can't you
>instantly pick out Django Reinhardt in the first couple bars? There's
>something there that nobody can emulate. The closest I've heard is
>Bir=C3=A9li Lagr=C3=A8ne. He's fooled me a couple times, but after you li=
sten
>to him for a while, you can tell the difference.
>
>
>
>--=20
>Ellis Johnson
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