John can probably answer this better than I, but my guess is that King Curtis had more 'tools in his toolbox' and a wider range in playing style than...
Thanks for this, Oric. I fear that I have given you cause to write this unnecessarily. My use of the word 'adequate' was rather sloppy. What I meant...
I'm curious- would you call this tune hard bop, jazz funk- what genre? I ask because I'm putting together a gig and am looking for tunes like this to...
That reward of finding a really good reed is part of what I like about cane reeds. Of course it has to be balanced with the frustration of finding 2...
If by 'projection' we mean reaching to the far corners of a room, then another thing I've always wondered about 'projection,' especially when someone...
What a sweet memory saxoclese! I remember when I went to his "Great Plains" jazz camp in high school (I'm from Kansas)- at a school literally in the...
If you want a really fine mpc that is plenty loud, but not shrill or too edgy, I don't think you can go wrong with Pete's PPT mpc. And RPCs are also...