Pete Effamy
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Ok. This is really going to date me, but my concept of a lead alto sound was and still is shaped by Marshall Royal's playing in the Count Basie band. When I was in college playing lead alto, I spent hours playing along with Basie records trying to match and emulate the tone and style of this great player. Back then in the '60's "the" classical mouthpiece was a Selmer C* or D, and the jazz mouthpiece was a Meyer. It is interesting that 20 years later many players were using their Meyer in concert band and jazz mouthpieces had evolved to something louder, brighter, and buzzier.
Lovely innit!
It's recorded so well too - amazing job from the engineers. Oh how I envy any of you old enough to have seen the legends.