Author: seabreeze
Date: 2020-11-05 19:46
Saxlogic is one of the best channels on YouTube for discussing saxophone style.
But style is a very personal matter and techniques that fit into one player's style might clash with another's. One example would be trumpet lip trills. Miles Davis hardly ever used them, so they are not essential to jazz trumpet. Phil Woods was a devotee of Charlie Parker's style and could zip off any Parker improvisation letter perfect if he wanted to (including the Parker with strings pieces) but his signature alto sax style was distinctly different from Parker's even in articulation. On the clarinet, Woods had still another style, lighter and more lyrical, with its own articulation patterns, and not much use of ghost tonguing.
Listen to Days of Wine and Roses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_rWvNd-2Gc.
This has a wonderful groove and lilt to it and swings just as much as Fountain, yet the articulation (and vibrato) patterns are very different. So also is the rhythmic, melodic and chordal conception, which draws on Latin American and modern jazz structures Fountain either didn't know or avoided. Bottom line: you can phrase jazz in almost unlimited numbers of ways and many different articulation styles.
Post Edited (2020-11-05 22:20)
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