Word: tenore
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...thought you would like to know how much I enjoyed the article on Coleman Hawkins [Aug. 31], the elder-statesman saxophone player. Though he has been playing tenor for nearly 40 years, "Bean" has always kept up with the youngsters as well as his contemporaries. I cannot recall a time in his long career when he could honestly be accused of "saxual senility...
...only place where I differ with your editor is the sentence "When Stan Getz and his cool tenor made the scene in the late '403, Hawkins was Out with...
...first crack in the dam was when Lester ("Pres") Young introduced a new school of vibratoless tone and long, extended solo lines. Young was Hawkins' strongest challenger, and it was Pres who begat Getz and the cool school. Most musicians consider Hawkins and Young the two great tenor influences...
...City last week, Stuarti was first heard as an offstage voice throbbing out Yours Is My Heart Alone; by the time he sailed into the last bars he was standing in a lavender spot, stage center, teeth gleaming to the glow of applause. After that, in a handsome dramatic-tenor voice, Stuarti worked through such standards as If Ever I Would Leave You, Arrivederci, Roma, Sorrento, Three Coins in the Fountain. The evening ended with a tearful Danny...
...them equipped with flaring torches. Concealed beneath fishermen's nets, the 120-man Vienna Symphony whipped out the music everyone had come to hear-a froth of billowy, bubbly Viennese tunes, as light and heady as the Nussberger wine that flowed before the performance. Through it all, the tenor sang of love...