Author: seabreeze
Date: 2018-04-16 04:42
Fuzzy,
All the sax players in the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra are terrific players and know the instrument well. Maybe the guy you have in mind didn't have any Legere or other synthetic reeds in his case. I'm sure some of the other sax players probably suggested he bring some (or try them if he hasn't) the next time he has to play at heights in thin air. Years ago I was used to playing clarinet in my home town of New Orleans (high humidity below-sea-level) and San Antonio, TX (dry climate and a little above sea-level) and when I played a gig on the roof top of a new shopping center in the upper-
reaches of Santa Fe, New Mexico, I felt like I had been paralyzed and could no longer feel the reed vibrate. I wasn't theatrical in response but just sort of withered away for the duration of the performance. So I sympathize with him. If he has to play in that unfamiliar environment again, he'll probably be prepared.
Sherman Irby, Ted Nash, Walter Blandis, Jr., Victor Goines, and Paul Nedzel make one fine sax section in that band. And several of them are no slouches on clarinet either.
Post Edited (2018-04-16 06:09)
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