[Dixielandjazz] all white saxophonists

[Larry Walton Entertainment]

I don't think so but something else bugs me in that every trumpet player 
around here sounds the same with a few notable exceptions.  No inflections, 
no feeling, no style, just straight trumpet.

When you mention Harry James to them you get a blank stare and who?  While 
there are most likely a couple more I know of only two who can play a Harry 
James tune or style and be spot on.  I understand that trumpet players of 
the past may be considered old fashioned but these guys are vanilla and 
generic.  They are like one beat drummers - lot of them around too.  What 
ever happened to style?
Larry
StL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ROBERT R. CALDER" <serapion at btinternet.com>
To: "Larry Walton" <larrys.bands at charter.net>
Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 2:49 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] all white saxophonists


> 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
>
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