<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.7143px"><div>These are the only two saxophonists that come to mind? What about all the great black jazz players?</div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span></div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.7143px"><font color="#888888"><div>Stathis Papaioannou</div><div><br></div><div>De Gustibus: I don't like most jazz (Brubeck is a huge exception, and he was classically trained and did some classical composing) and I don't like the sound of the sax unless it's very very mellow. I don't even like most Mozart or Beethoven or Bach, but what I do like I just love to death. I was born picky. Being black has nothing to do with it, I assure you. There's just not a lot of black classical composers. Big band jazz is OK - I would not turn off the radio if it was on, but I have no CDs of it among my 1200 collection. Bluegrass is good. Try the AUstin Lounge Lizards for a hoot (bunch of lawyers and crazy lyrics "I fled with my pflogger from Pfleugerville")</div><div><br></div><div>I like no pop music aside from a few in the 70s. I really wish I did like more of all kinds of music, but I just don't. No prejudice involved. Most people would call me a snob, but there's no elitism in it - I am just picky. Who can help that?</div><div><br></div><div>bill w</div></font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stathisp@gmail.com" target="_blank">stathisp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div>On Thu., 26 Jan. 2017 at 9:00 am, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="m_5281913884479971737gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_default m_5281913884479971737gmail_msg" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="m_5281913884479971737m_-2962129828843309558gmail-HOEnZb m_5281913884479971737gmail_msg" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13.7143px"><font color="#888888" class="m_5281913884479971737gmail_msg"><p class="MsoNormal m_5281913884479971737gmail_msg"><span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Most composers would not write for the sax because of the muddy overtones. Not a quality instrument, they said. Probably the reason people like it (though, sadly, I don't except for Paul Desmond - Boots Randolph is a nightmare to me). I wonder why the oboe is not a pop instrument?</span></p></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>These are the only two saxophonists that come to mind? What about all the great black jazz players?</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Stathis Papaioannou</div>
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