[Dixielandjazz] Re: Dixielandjazz Digest, Vol 44, Issue 52

[pat ladd]

Re Maynard playing.

<<Perhaps for the same reason Artie Shaw explored those super high notes on
the clarinet for which no music had yet been written.>>

Hi Steve,

the difference being that it still sounded like a clarinet when he got 
there. H e didn`t have to strangle a cat to get that sreech.
I thought `going your own way` with your music was the exploration of ideas, 
tempos, licks, not  this.

Would the extending of a piano keyboard by a couple octaves count as `going 
your own way`, or or making your guitar sound like a mandolin?  What is the 
point?  Other instruments already exist which do the job better.

Cheers

Pat