Re: [Harp-L] clarification

[Jp "Pagán" <jpl_pagan@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Michael
Peloquin" <peloquinharp@xxxx> wrote:
> >From: Jp "Pagán" <jpl_pagan@xxxx>
> >--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Joe and
Cass
> >Leone <leone@xxxx> wrote:
> >
> > >   I just think that too much squawk is out. A
little
> >is OK, but some
> > > guys over-do it.
> >
> >i always hated the "Saturday Night Live" sax sound,
that guys like Jr. 
> >Walker often do.

> OK time to chime in from an edumacated perspective.


ah. i had a feeling i'd be hearing from you when i
opened my clap-trap!

> What in the heck are you guys squawking about?
> SNL squawk guy has a name. IMO this awful sax-cretin
is the best R&B tenor 
> sax player alive.
> LENNY PICKETT. (Jr. was incredible also)

i didn't mean to pick on Lenny's playing overall. it's
just a certain... sound... i'm not sure how to put it,
that i associate with the theme from SNL. drives me
bonkers. i think it's the harp equivalent to the 4/5
shake (which i play, so i know i'm being a hypocrite!
- i tell my mom "whenever you hear me play that, you
know i couldn't think of anything else to play ") 

> He joined Tower of Power when he was 16 and is now
the MUSICAL DIRECTOR of 
> SNL. This is a musician's musician with many tools
under his belt besides 
> squawk. He has an instantly recognizable sound,
something that some of us 
> want and others seem to disdain.

again, just to clarify (and eat a little more crow)
i'm sure the guy's an amazing musician. i love sax.
really i do. it was just that one niggling pet peeve.
like i said, Jr. Walker does it too, but i love his
playing anyway.

> What is SQUAWK?

that sound just before my overblows pop in...

> High notes above the saxophone's normal range is
called the altissimo 
> register. Lenny and many others can play beautiful
melodic ideas in that 
> range. (This is not a JP playing musically unrelated
patterns at blinding 
> speed as a parlor trick.) please do define this
squawk thing, maybe I can 
> include it into my arsenal.

good point. (and careful when you talk about "JP". i
certainly cannot play musically unrelated patterns at
blinding speed as a parlor trick. as a drunken parlor
trick maybe.)

i'll come up with a recording of what i'm thinking of,
and we can compare. then again, at that point it will
cease to be discussable on harp-l.

> I have been known to both squawk & head shake. And i
know that i am better 
> than Chris M.
> ... at something?

you know those scenes in Westerns where the one guy
walks into the street, then the other guy 50 yards
away walks into the street and they stare at each
other? i'm the mexican dude halfway in-between who's
diving into the horse trough for cover... ;)

   --Jp

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