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[Winslow Yerxa <76450.3230@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Guys, please! It's sax -OOOOO- phone.

the straight sax is a sporano, the highest regular type. Others
include alto - the next down - Cahrlie Parker, Cannonball
Adderly, and Candy Dulfer, the girl Chris is thinking of. (She's
either Dutch or German, I think the former).

There are tons of great sax players to steal good stuff from.
Gene Ammons is one. But for a sensuous notebender par excellence,
try Johnny Hodges from the Duke Ellingotn band. He could make the
alto sound so *sexy*. The band featured a lot of other great
instrumentalists, all of whom could teach harps players a thing
or two. More on this another time.

Lester Young was the most important jazz voice between Louis
Armstrong and Charlie Parker. he was the star solist with the
Count basie Bans in the '30s, and also played many of Billie
Holidays' greatest sides. Check out his 1942 "D.B. Blues," and his
Basie recordings of "Tickle Toe" and "Dickie's Dream." His
"cool" style spawned not only bebop in the '40s and the Miles Davis cool
modal style of the '50s (along with Stan Getz and several other
tenor sax players), but also provided the inspiration for such
R&B sax honkers as Big Jay McNeely, who has recorded with harp
player Bill Tarscia.

Louis Jordan was an alto player who fronted a jazz-flavored
jump-blues group, the Tympani Five, in the 1940's, and produced
such classics as "Saturday Night Fish Fry" and "Caldonia," both
covered often by blues players. In fact, Jordan's style was also
an inspriation to Little Walter.

There are tons more great sax players, but these are probably the
most directly relavent to blues harmonica.