Rhythm Thief
Veteran
The main problem with the sax (of any sort) is that it seems to attract the sort of musician who thinks we all want to hear a 40 minute improvised solo over a double bass and some drums. Or Courtney Pine.
Rhythm Thief said:The main problem with the sax (of any sort) is that it seems to attract the sort of musician who thinks we all want to hear a 40 minute improvised solo over a double bass and some drums.
theclaud said:Well, if it's Sonny Rollins, I do. There are a lot of bad saxophone players, but the same can be said of the guitar.
theclaud said:Strange views of Coltrane, who was a modest and deeply serious chap (not in the Bonj sense), and the absolute opposite of a show-off. Jelly-Roll Morton, Stan Getz -they were show-offs, but that's fair enough when you're that good. And only on an internet forum could anyone get away with a statement as preposterously cavalier as "Davis was a bit patchy IMO", about one of the most important and influential musicians of the century.
Yep go and see Rollins if you can - he's in his late seventies now and it's showing, but there's only one of him. He has a voice a bit like Kermit the frog.
Rhythm Thief said:just because Miles Davis is "important and influential" doesn't mean I have to like the noise he makes.
srw said:Andy my rescue-from-the-bonfire list (as well as the cello) starts with the recorder. The most under-appreciated instrument going.
Andy in Sig said:a lot of stuff of his that I've heard was meaningless noodling to me.
Andy in Sig said:But you need people like me to be prepared to shout "Emperor's New Clothes". Otherwise the arts world, which has the unfortunate tendency to attract arty types, would be completely insufferable.