Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2021-03-06 03:11
Tom H wrote:
> These are good descriptions. Must admit I have only given much
> thought to wanting a "dark" sound. I have heard some who play
> with that mellow silky, etc. sound. One guy, a sax player in a
> concert band I played in, took a clarinet solo when we played a
> swing tune. He sounded like Goodman. He had played with Goodman
> back then (Aaron Sachs).
>
But there's the problem in a nutshell. You can say that the guy "sounded like Goodman," and anyone who ever heard Benny Goodman would have an idea of what you mean. But I for one am lost when you describe that sound as "mellow, silky, etc." (you left out "chocolatey"), since I have always heard Goodman's sound as colorful and lean with lots of fast vibrato. We may well have the same sound in mind, or we may be referencing different exemplars, but our descriptors are almost diametrically opposed, or at least very different. For me, your description better fits Artie Shaw, who is hard to confuse with Goodman when compared directly.
You can't say either of us is wrong, but in a serious(?) discussion we wouldn't be communicating very clearly.
Karl
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