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[quote name='jerkstore']What do you do for a living? Musician 11. If you are in or went to college where do/did you go? Mannes New School for Jazz studies [/QUOTE]</p>
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I 've played the horn for 20 years, I guess I'm a bit of a prodigy, I have near perfect pitch and am said to sound like David Sanborn. New School instructor Jane Ira Bloom said I sounded like Illonis Jacquet, but I think I've got a bit of Wayne Shorter in me
I gave up on an academic institution that could teach me music and prefer to continue my music education via performing artists. </p>
Right now I'm living in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island playing jazz as a sideman in some blues bands. Taking it easy and trying to write for my first album.</p>
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I assume you're being facecious, because I've never heard the word "prodigy" in the same sentence as David Sanborn. lol. I have a few Jacquet recordings, but prefer Benny Webster and Lester Young from back then. I guess I'm a Sonny Rollins guy, though. Who are your favorite jazz musicians?</p>
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I had Sanborn's tone at age 15, and it was self taught. Most musicians consider me telepathic, I might be a clown on this message board, but I am no joke on the saxophone. When I was 22 GRP label was interested in me, however I blew it off to play more traditional styles which I guess would be modal blues and collective improv groups which were in the vein of Pharoh Sanders/Albert Ayler/Sun Ra. <-- I consider this to be roots music, and my answer to "soft jazz".
Had I persued the path of CD101.9 and radio spot session work I would have made some bread, but would have felt as if I sold my soul.
I went further into the Avant Garde studying with members of John Zorn's emsambles and went to classes with Anthony Braxton, who was then chair of Wesylian music dept once held by John Cage.
My favorite standard players are Cannonball, Lou Donaldson, Eric Dolphy, Trane..
The best modern horn player/young lion is Greg Osby. Solutions of light is an amazing album.
Benny Webster and Lester Young are great lyrical horn players of a bygone age, Joshua Redman and James Carter are wonderful throwbacks to that era.
Sonny Rollins is basically the greatest living Saxophonist.
And you are really sleeping Sanborn btw, That guy has altissimo fingerings named after him, and considers himself a "harmelodic" Ornette Coleman disiple. He's on so many records... I dunno I just have a professional admiration for that, the guy is a beast on the horn.