Dunno if we've done this yet. If we have it must have been more than, oh at least a week ago, or I might have remembered it.
Anyway.
Just out of curiosity (nosiness).
List your favourite players. That is, really your favourites. Not a list of all the greats in the last 100 years. Who would you pay money to go and see (if they were alive)? Who gets most hits on your vast collection of mp3s or vinyl (if you can't let go of the past)? And I don't want a list of the ones you think you ought to like cos you're super-hip or something. I want the the ones you actually listen to - lots. Even Kenny G - don't be ashamed - I wish I had his technique.
I know it varies from year to year, month to month, etc. but now will do.
Me:
soprano: Jan Garbarek, Tore Brunborg
alto: Miguel Zenon
tenor: Jan Garbarek, Tore Brunborg, Ken Vandermark
baritone: Ken Vandermark, Luca Mai
Shame Elton Dean isn't there. But if you added up all the time I've listened to him over the years he'd be number one in sop and alto. Coltrane would be there on tenor and Surman in baritone.
Anyway.
Just out of curiosity (nosiness).
List your favourite players. That is, really your favourites. Not a list of all the greats in the last 100 years. Who would you pay money to go and see (if they were alive)? Who gets most hits on your vast collection of mp3s or vinyl (if you can't let go of the past)? And I don't want a list of the ones you think you ought to like cos you're super-hip or something. I want the the ones you actually listen to - lots. Even Kenny G - don't be ashamed - I wish I had his technique.
I know it varies from year to year, month to month, etc. but now will do.
Me:
soprano: Jan Garbarek, Tore Brunborg
alto: Miguel Zenon
tenor: Jan Garbarek, Tore Brunborg, Ken Vandermark
baritone: Ken Vandermark, Luca Mai
Shame Elton Dean isn't there. But if you added up all the time I've listened to him over the years he'd be number one in sop and alto. Coltrane would be there on tenor and Surman in baritone.