[Fwd: Re: [Dixielandjazz] "AXE"....]

[fred spencer]

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Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] "AXE"....
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 10:08:24 -0400
From: fred spencer <drjz at bealenet.com>
To: GWW174 at aol.com
References: <17b.1b85999e.2c18068d at aol.com>




Dear Gordon et al.,
Robert S. Gold in Jazz Talk has 5 quotes about "Ax", the first from 
1957. A "semantic explanation" in 1958 is, "any of the solo reed, or 
(less commonly) brass instruments. Orig. a saxophone. From fancied 
resemblance in shape plus the abbr. saxophone." Later "extended to any 
tool of work." The Peter(s),Clayton and Gammond, in The Guinness 
Companion to Jazz (1989), say "The term was introduced in the 1940s." 
Wentworth and Flexner in their Dictionary of American Slang (1967) have, 
"A musical instrument, esp..in a modern jazz context, 1957, and "any 
musiuical instrument-even a piano." Regards.
Fred
GWW174 at aol.com wrote:

>.... what is it?  We all know both definitions of an AXE
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>.... but where did it come from?
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>.... who first used the word in the musical context?
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>Should be some interesting reading about the derrivation of the musical 
>context of an AXE.
>
>Gordon of Northridge
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