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That's a very interesting clip from Liam. Fascinated with his power smiley embouchure. At the end a video of him from the seventies and the giants appears on the cover. He has a more relaxed...

Yes. Coleman Hawkins said the same thing about his Henderson days, that he used a very stiff reed for power and volume. We all know about his tone.

Not trying to be ornery since Uncle Phil wants to take his ball home, his privilige, but this a monster topic, and the emergence of the power mouthpiece is just about the last hugest thing that ever...

"It will never be a great mouthpiece"? Is this the MasterLink we're talking? So Hersch, Pres, Ben, Hawk, Vido, and all the funky '30s cats had plenty room for improvement, could have done a lot...

If the Shillers are so apparent to so many eBayers, they must be well known to eBay itself and it probably won't end 'til law enforcement prosecutes eBay for running fradulent auctions and what's the...

Make the dog jealous. Go practice out in the doghouse.

His last concert was recorded. I remember 'Sunday' in particular he was roaring away, but he must have known he was in trouble. I've never heard another record where he spoke to the audience, but in...

Looks like you'll be paying through the snoz for this one. It's already got 25 bids, with 15 of them by the good old feedbackless bidder. Seen that a few times.

You guys are so good I wish you would embrace swing music. The world could use it. Piano's perfect, trumpet could lose some of those bop runs; none of them in the 30s. Swing music evolved for...

This one is my latest Don Byas obsession. He comes in at 4:10. An added bonus is seeing how shockingly beautiful Lena Horne was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSaltdZdhEY

I guess it's just that the whole saxscape is so vast it's just not possible to absorb and really hear and appreciate the entire canon and come up with a judgement on the whole. You gotta every tub on...

Remember the OP was asking for both influencing the public and the profession. I'll shut up about Herschel other than to say Lionel Hampton claimed he told him before they got jobs in New York, "Wait...

At the risk of falling into that ego trip of calling your most favourite, "the greatest", I have to name Herschel Evans as not only 'the greatest tenor played', but also 'the greatest jazzman'. If...

I prefer his swing era playing but he's a good rock 'n roll tenor too. He got a full length feature at a time almost no other tenors were so lucky. Sounds a lot like Dick Wilson here. -
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There's all them sax solos on saxsolos.com

There used to be a website that discussed Chu's horn. I think they felt it was a '31 or 2. It had engraving of the New York skyline, not sure if it was named Art Deco. Gold plated, too. They knew the...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpVGAVcUdTA

Uncle Turtle. I hope we weren't just led on a wild goose chase for us to admire and yearn for your beautiful saxophone. Now you owe it to yourself and your horn to dig in and play the righteous...

I would have thought Getz's style evolved as a reaction to and a wish to be an extreme opposite of the raucous excitement- button pushers of the Texas tenors, Webster school and upcoming 'arr n' bee...

Rrrrarr! How sad. You're selling this already? You might never get or even see another like this in your life. I would have thought it was worth a little more than 2+grand.