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Hornbein
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I say the tenor saxophone is the most versatile and expressive instrument. Here's Miku Yonezawa going full mid-period Coltrane. Hardly anyone plays this style because it's both unpopular and very hard to do. Usually she tones it down for the audience but not here.
More orthodox is Lenny Pickett, who has been around for a long long time. Tenor sax players don't get famous any more.
Oh yeah, versatility. How about Paul Desmond. "They say I sound like a dry martini. I thought it was more like three dry martinis." I once heard someone say they were involved in scattering the post-cremation ashes of Paul Desmond at the bluffs in Big Sur. "When we tossed the ashes a gust blew them back in our faces. Paul was always pulling some kind of stunt like that."
Yes, it's an alto not a tenor. So sue me.
More orthodox is Lenny Pickett, who has been around for a long long time. Tenor sax players don't get famous any more.
Oh yeah, versatility. How about Paul Desmond. "They say I sound like a dry martini. I thought it was more like three dry martinis." I once heard someone say they were involved in scattering the post-cremation ashes of Paul Desmond at the bluffs in Big Sur. "When we tossed the ashes a gust blew them back in our faces. Paul was always pulling some kind of stunt like that."
Yes, it's an alto not a tenor. So sue me.