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Jeff Coffin uses it from time to time as well.
Harry Carney and Lenny Picket did as well from what I've heard.
I saw James Carter use it a couple of times on flute, but not often.
It's not a very commonly practiced technique, but best of luck.
Alphorn players use it, as do didgeridoo players if that's of any help to you.
It's not an issue of how many use circular breathing and live. The FACT is that there is no build up of excessive pressure. If people die of excessive backpressure due to playing wind instruments, there would be no French horn players over 23 years old.
It's not an issue of how many use circular breathing and live. The FACT is that there is no build up of excessive pressure. If people die of excessive backpressure due to playing wind instruments, there would be no French horn players over 23 years old.
It's not an issue of how many use circular breathing and live. The FACT is that there is no build up of excessive pressure. If people die of excessive backpressure due to playing wind instruments, there would be no French horn players over 23 years old.
Even if it was a spoof, major media outlets reported it as fact, basically creating a myth that saxophonists die young. My paper is going to prove that is not true.
It's not an issue of how many use circular breathing and live. The FACT is that there is no build up of excessive pressure. If people die of excessive backpressure due to playing wind instruments, there would be no French horn players over 23 years old.
Even if it was a spoof, major media outlets reported it as fact, basically creating a myth that saxophonists die young. My paper is going to prove that is not true.
How 'bout exercising your paper here before you go to publication then? As I said, citing "evidence" that there exist players who use circular breathing that are still alive does not establish a case for refuting the spoof.
• Jeff Coffin - jazz musician best known as a saxophonist but also plays clarinet and flute. Is a member of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk - jazz multi-instrumentalist[4]
• Roscoe Mitchell - jazz multi-instrumentalist[5]
• Hamiet Bluiett - American jazz and avant garde baritone saxophonist
• David Murray- Plays tenor saxophone and, on occasion, bass clarinet[6]
• James Carter - saxophonist, flautist, and bass clarinetist
• Evan Parker - saxophone player
• Lenny Pickett - saxophone player with the 1970s funk band Tower of Power and SNL band
• Pharoah Sanders - tenor saxophonist
• Kenny G - American saxophonist
• John Surman - baritone and soprano saxophonist[citation needed]
• John Zorn - avant-garde saxophonist and composer
• Femi Kuti - Afrobeat and jazz saxophonist[citation needed]
• Harry Carney - baritone saxophonist with Duke Ellington's Orchestra
It's not an issue of how many use circular breathing and live. The FACT is that there is no build up of excessive pressure. If people die of excessive backpressure due to playing wind instruments, there would be no French horn players over 23 years old.
Even if it was a spoof, major media outlets reported it as fact, basically creating a myth that saxophonists die young. My paper is going to prove that is not true.
How 'bout exercising your paper here before you go to publication then? As I said, citing "evidence" that there exist players who use circular breathing that are still alive does not establish a case for refuting the spoof.
I am not going to base my entire paper on the circular breathing myth, that's just a part of it. I'm going to look at all famous jazz saxophonists, regardless if they circular breath or not, and calculate their life expectancy. I'd be happy to send you my paper when I am finished.
Does anyone know if John Coltrane circular breathed? It's been suggested that he learned how, but did he ever use it in a solo?
I am not going to base my entire paper on the circular breathing myth, that's just a part of it. I'm going to look at all famous jazz saxophonists, regardless if they circular breath or not, and calculate their life expectancy. I'd be happy to send you my paper when I am finished.
THat article is total junk in my opinion because it doesn't factor in drugs and compares people of different times, from different cultures and different life expectancies. It's ridiculous.
That article is BS.
Think about it: most of the jazzists died of other causes: not because they played saxophone.
Researchers will say anything to scare people and get their time in the limelight.
Rather than open up a new thread, I thought I'd resurrect this one because of an experience at a band rehearsal last week. I learned to circular breath back in high school, and of course the only time I found it worthwhile to use was when I wanted to show off (it was high school, you know). I would revisit it over the years, but never put it into practice and forgot about it accordingly. So getting back to last week... I had just played a solo on a tune at practice and afterwards our keyboard player asked me if I was circular breathing. I asked why and she said she saw me puffing out my cheeks in spots. I pondered over this... then when she asked, showed how I could do it. Then I realized... I had been doing it. It seems while soloing, if I get into a certain rhythm/riff... I do it subconsciously as I go along.
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