eupher61 wrote:Kenny G. (hey, it's made of brass...)
If you're going to include 'those' people, maybe you'd include the likes of John Coltrane, but sappy ballads don't require a heck of a lot of technique
Yes, but Kenny honks. 'trane lives!
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eupher61 wrote:Kenny G. (hey, it's made of brass...)
If you're going to include 'those' people, maybe you'd include the likes of John Coltrane, but sappy ballads don't require a heck of a lot of technique
Yes, but Kenny hornks. 'trane lives!
errr... yeah- that's what I was trying to say. I don't recall Coltrane doing many sappy ballads...
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At the risk of sounding disloyal, I have to say that trumpet players are at the top of the heap in general. This is partly because of their long history of being on the hot seat and having really difficult parts written for them. Then there is the tradition of the solo cornetists, like Arban, Clarke, etc. and some solo trumpet players like Mendez. But these days I have to say the best brass player I've ever heard is Sergei Nakariakov. He has truly amazing technique and dandy musicality.
There are a few good samples on YouTube. I really like him playing the Haydn Cello Concerto on flugel.
[/quote]As a former horn player, "I feel your pain" (c) Bill Clinton who, BTW, is a really shitty sax player.[/quote]
My dad was a sax player "back in the day". When he went to region band auditions, the person who absolutely blew the crap out of everyone that year was a guy named William Clinton. That kid went on to not only be the President of the U.S., but also became 1st chair sax player of the Arkansas All-State-Band that year.
(Now, back to the topic of this thread) Baadsvik gets my vote...hands down. I don't know of any other brass player who enchants audiences of both musicians and non-musicians alike.
On another side note...why can't I get the whole "quote" thing to work?! How do people get this to work?
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josh_kaprun wrote:My dad was a sax player in HS. When he went to region band auditions, the person who absolutely blew the crap out of everyone was a guy named William Clinton. That kid went on to not only be the President of the U.S., but was also 1st chair All-State-Band that year. (At least, I'm pretty sure he was 1st chair...there is a small chance I'm misremembering that part...but that is only a SMALL chance)
Which is why the people on this board exhort one to KEEP PRACTICING!
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
As a former horn player, "I feel your pain" (c) Bill Clinton who, BTW, is a really shitty sax player.[/quote]
My dad was a sax player "back in the day". When he went to region band auditions, the person who absolutely blew the crap out of everyone that year was a guy named William Clinton. That kid went on to not only be the President of the U.S., but also became 1st chair sax player of the Arkansas All-State-Band that year.[/quote]
I did not know that.... Probably doesn't practice enough... When I heard him on Arsenio Hall whenever, it wasn't too musical.
have to go with Chris on this one - Adolph Herseth. I have followed his playing for a long time and have seen him in concert a number of times in NYC and other places and he always amazed the crap out of me. Watching from the balcony front row at Carnegie Hall as the opening of the last movement of Mahler VII begins - what he did sent chills down my spine and made the hair in the back of my neck stand up. I came damn close to peeing myself. I heard him do it again at Ohio State University 20 years later - same response (and a wet seat).
No one else has ever given me that kind of physical reaction.
Just my $0.02.
Roger
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people, maybe you'd include the likes of John Coltrane, but sappy ballads don't require a heck of a lot of technique
I don't recall Coltrane doing many sappy ballads...
