Author: ruben
Date: 2019-06-08 18:18
Dear Seabreeze, I suppose there is no point in trying to sound like, or phrase like, Paul Desmond because like any true original, he was inimitable; perhaps more inimitable than anybody else. I met him once and remember that he was a chain-smoker (he died of lung cancer), hit the bottle pretty hard and was very intellectual and witty. He was on the road about 340 days a year and at the end, had had enough of it and gave up playing alogether for two or three years. When he came back, he sounded more beautiful and fresher than ever. He needed to get away from the Dave Brubeck context, though he continued playing with Brubeck off and on until the end. I met him him through Johnny Hodges, who had tremendous admiration for him. The two had more in common than one would readily think: namely, the effortless lyricism.
rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com
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