[Dixielandjazz] all white saxophonists

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

It should be quite clear what Miles Davis would mean with the statement that all 
white saxophonists sound the same. Unless you are absurdly literal-minded it's a 
sort of warning exaggeration about a standard approach, with something of a joke 
in it and probably a bit of self-parody and counter-provocation
and some contempt expressed by saying what he was expected to say. 
and getting in a dig at complacent persons whose lily-whiteness also extended to 
their livers

And I suppose the cool white tenor player was a marketing stereotype Miles 
disapproved of. 

I got the impression the late Bud Shank said something sour and accurate about a 
time when all white saxophonists were supposed to sound the same for marketing 
purposes