From: George Brooks <gbrooks1@xxxxxxxxx>
Robert Bonfiglio wrote:
>We are leaving out one the best straight ahead
>jazz players - Hendrik Meurkens....
Hoo boy. I've gotten some mail offlist, too, naming others that should
have been included as being able to play no-excuses jazz. I never meant to
create a list of worthy jazz button chromatic players. I named three, and
said I doubt that we could come up with another forty-seven names (the
point I was trying to make being that saxophone players able to play
complex jazz at a similar level probably number in the hundreds, at least).
Yes, Toots. Yes, Hendrik. And others, about whom it should not be assumed
that I am expressing any opinion by not naming them here (or in my previous
posts on this subject). They are admirable. My only point was that they
are scarce compared to players of other instruments more readily adapted to
the playing of this type of music, such as saxophone, trumpet, and piano.
George