Various - The Art Of The Saxophone

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:46
Size: 91.0 MB
Styles: Saxophone jazz
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[ 6:12] 1. John Coltrane - Stars Fell On Alabama
[11:08] 2. Eric Dolphy - 245
[ 6:27] 3. Al Cohn - Halley's Comet
[ 6:57] 4. Al Cohn - The Red Door
[ 3:17] 5. Coleman Hawkins - Body And Soul
[ 5:44] 6. John Coltrane - Wabash

For some, the saxophone is the sound of jazz. The unique fusion of brass and woodwind that is the sax found an electrifying vibrato in the hands of jazzmen that truly changed the world. The pale "pure" tone of the instrument, as first used in classical compositions, vanished in a musical blast of slurs (Coleman Hawkins and Johnny Hodges, occasional exciting "false-fingering" (Lester Young) and runs almost too fast, for some at the time, to listen to (Charlie Parker). Parker employed the range of the alto sax and its keying system to show the world a new music entirely, while "sonorists" like Stan Getz (possessor of "The Sound") turned the instrument into, effectively, the "sexophone." And so Hollywood movies have always automatically cued a sax solo " When Lights Are Low," as the Benny Carter title says.

The Art Of The Saxophone

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