Great Players Who sparked your love of Sax music

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It's just another urban myth that T and J have been banned for being too violent.

What did happen was that Ofcom (not the BBC) said that smoking scenes in T & J, as well as other cartoons, should be deleted. Turner Broadcasting owns the rights to T & J, and they have cut out the smoking scenes, leaing the rest of each cartoon. They have also done this to hundreds of other cartoons.

Moral? Don't believe all you read in the Daily Mail. 😛
 
ah, fair do's/ At least we know now.
They always used to be on BBC2 on a Saturday afternoon, just after Playaway, and before The Pink Panther (more great jazz).

(might have a look on Amazon, see if I can get a boxed set. Who was the band on those older 1940s cartoons?)
 
I started on Tenor Sax. I have always loved the Sax (especially Tenor) but it was definitely Stan Getz that gave me the need to play. I still admire him the most although my choice of favourite players has grown a great deal over the years. Paul Desmond is my choice for best Alto player and listening to him makes me pick up my Alto and play.
 
It was my daughter who got me into playing. She was learning and we were renting a sax. When we decided to buy her one, I said that if she ever stopped playing, I would start (thinking that a 12 year old girl would not dare let her dad play! How wrong could you be?). When she stopped, I had to keep to my word and started. I started having lessons and have thoroughly enjoyed it ever since. I only wish I had started earlier in life.
 
Yeah, that whole "starting earlier" thing is a bit of a regret. But thankfully the only one I have. Still if i started at school and got good young, I might take it all for granted now and not enjoy it or find it all amazing as much here and now. 8|

Col.
 
Take heart all you late bloomers. You know all those child prodigies and talented seven-year-olds? Well, I've read several times that by the time they've graduated from uni or reached a similar age, they are usually technically no better than someone of the same age who's been playing since they were, say, fifteen or sixteen, or even older. There seems to come a stage where everything evens out, so it seems to give them little real advantage.

I keep telling myself this when I've played something particularly well and/or been singled out for a compliment from the boss. I think back to Miss Joyce (yeah, that was my music teacher's real name) and her cronies who wouldn't let me take music as an option because I was rubbish at Maths and Science (go figure 8| ), and I think, "Yeah, eff you all, you were all wrong. See, I can do it!"
 
Not really any one sax player, and it took years for it to finally trickle through my mind to the point where I actually bought one, but I suppose my initial inspirations were the likes of Geoff Leigh and Tim Hodgkinson (of Henry Cow), Jimmy Hastings (played on the Hatfield's and Caravan's records), David Jackson of Van Der Graaf, but probably more than any one of them was Mel Collins for his work with King Crimson.
 
Geoff Leigh and Jaxxon! As i've said- two of my assorted collection of teachers down the ages.... Geoff's excellent- really inspring guy, anyonei n hastings take note- he's not a a 'lets get you through grades' type of teacher (no surprises there, really) but I learnt a lot of good stuff from him. Check him out at- http://tiny.cc/mE3rE
 
RedBottom wrote:
Take heart all you late bloomers. You know all those child prodigies and talented seven-year-olds? Well, I've read several times that by the time they've graduated from uni or reached a similar age, they are usually technically no better than someone of the same age who's been playing since they were, say, fifteen or sixteen, or even older. There seems to come a stage where everything evens out, so it seems to give them little real advantage.

I keep telling myself this when I've played something particularly well and/or been singled out for a compliment from the boss. I think back to Miss Joyce (yeah, that was my music teacher's real name) and her cronies who wouldn't let me take music as an option because I was rubbish at Maths and Science (go figure 8| ), and I think, "Yeah, eff you all, you were all wrong. See, I can do it!"
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Yer, but I started when I was 45! I've got a lot of catching up to which I am thoroughly enjoying.
 
Redbottom- yeh! feel the same! -
To Mrs Stevenson (piano teacher) I say; "If I want to play "Mr" Beethoven's music in swing quavers I will do!" and to Mr Terry (school music master) I say " - deleted - and furthermore - deleted - with a big stick!" 😡
 
wavygravy wrote:
surely someone was inspired by the great boots randolph...or is it just me that remembers scantily clad women being chased by benny hill.
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Good one.
But, well, if you were paying more attention to the sax than the scantily clad women you get what you deserve
>:)
 
Bobby G wrote:
Add to my list of original inspirations (how could I have forgotten??) dear old Bloomdido Bad De Grass, a.k.a. Didier Malherbe, also Nik Turner not so much for his playing as his philosophy, which is 'I just dig freaking around on saxophones'.

If you've got a blacklist I want to be on it.
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Your signature... It's a song quote but what's the song? It's bugging me...
 

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