Take one wide mouthpiece. Throw away the lig. Glue on a 1/8th plank of bamboo using Bostick super impact glue. While that's drying do 6 months of 2 hrs exercise per day with industrial strength chest expanders. At the same time practice picking up a spare mouthpiece with your lips only, using a normal embouchure. Progress slowly, adding the neck and then the body. After 3 months you should be able to do 20 iterations of mouthpiece plus neck plus body without breaking into a sweat. FOr the final 3 months repeat the exercise, firstly with Bari (allow 1 month) and bass (allow 2 months).
Then start playing.....
There was a story that Earl Bostic played with a bit of a razor blade inside his mouthpiece (no, honestly). A bit like the removable spoiler in some Runyon mouthpieces, I suppose.
Can this be true ?
I'd heard this one too.... Incredible player- wasn't there a quote by one of the great jazzers (Art Blakey, I think) saying Earl Bostic knew the sax better than any other player- including Bird and Cannonball..... (ok, a contentious viewpoint but...)There was a story that Earl Bostic played with a bit of a razor blade inside his mouthpiece (no, honestly). A bit like the removable spoiler in some Runyon mouthpieces, I suppose.
Can this be true ?
Rhys
Did Earl Bostic play a beautifully smoky yet sleazy version of 'HarlemNocturne'? or am I thinking of someone else? An alto player?
I'd heard this one too.... Incredible player- wasn't there a quote by one of the great jazzers (Art Blakey, I think) saying Earl Bostic knew the sax better than any other player- including Bird and Cannonball..... (ok, a contentious viewpoint but...)
Did Earl Bostic play a beautifully smoky yet sleazy version of 'HarlemNocturne'? or am I thinking of someone else? An alto player?
I'd heard this one too.... Incredible player- wasn't there a quote by one of the great jazzers (Art Blakey, I think) saying Earl Bostic knew the sax better than any other player- including Bird and Cannonball..... (ok, a contentious viewpoint but...)
I've got the same piece, a Beechler Belite on my Silversonic, tried the tenor reed and it simply just does not work.....but there again i aint Bostic, so quite possible....altissimo;71877 [QUOTE said:Bostic used a Beechler mouthpiece with a tenor saxophone reed
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