Re: [Harp-L] Toots and squaky sax playing on Toots and Bill Evan'sAfinity CD

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 21, 2005, at 6:05 PM, Joe and Cass Leone wrote:

> On Mar 21, 2005, at 3:17 PM, Pierre wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I guess - LW seems to be one of the worse for for doing that on 
> > some tunes. I must admit I expect more from him.
> >
> > Pierre.
>  Some people think the head shake is more showey. I suppose harp 
> players did it and then when they got a reaction from the audience, 
> they figured "Hmmm, that's a keeper". I feel that only the young 
> should be able to get away with it. If 'I' did it, I'm sure I would 
> strip a gear in my neck. Watched a guy do it last night (more on that 
> in a later post) and it didn't bother me much but he was only 40.
>
>  Sax players who use that "squawking B" aggravate the hell out of me, 
> and I thought I was alone in that thought. The trend comes from 
> 'Rock', and has no place in Jazz. Since I don't consider Jean Batiste 
> as rock, it's out of place.
>
> smo-joe