Word: saxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kirk, who started his musical career playing a water hose, once had a strange dream about 20 years ago. He saw himself playing three horns. He recognized one immediately, the tenor sax, his native instrument...
...other two horns, the mazello, a kind of soprano sax, and the stritch, an alto variety, were instruments that Kirk was to name and create...
...worth heading out to Beverly this weekend for some of Philly Joe Jones's drumming. Jones tuned with the master sax artist. Coleman Hawkins, in the early 60's--and he's got one of the best beats around. He'll be playing through Sunday at Sandy's Jazz Revival...
...Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out," which is not complex musically but, like the bass line in "Sunshine of Your Love," allows for incredible solos. Contrasting to the tightness of "She's the One" is the emotion of "Night," where Springsteen's vocal and Clarence Clemon's blaring, buzzing sax transcend the simple message--"You work from nine to five/And somehow you survive/Till the night"-- and make boredom and anguish palpable...
Eddle "Lockjaw" Davis. Davis was born to play the tenor sax, it seems. Eight months after he bought his first horn, he was playing in Monroe's Uptown House in Hariem where the greatest jazz musicians of the time would match one another in all-night "cutting" sessions. Davis withdrew from the music scene in the early sixties, but he came back after a year to become a soloist and road manager for the Count Basic Band. Now on his own, he puts down a blues-based, funky sound that has charged listeners for three decades. At Sandy's Jazz...