But he envisioned that the saxophone would have two uses: in military ensembles and also orchestrally.
And that legacy seems to have followed the saxophone right up until the present.
Old friends say that Mr. Loughner began high school a normal kid who excelled at the saxophone.
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Mr. SEGELL: Well, that's the saxophone for you, controversial right from the start.
Not because of what was depicted on the screen, but because of the so-called carnal, voluptuous sound of the saxophone.
They also made appearances at two late-night events in Los Angeles, including one for the Saxophone Club of young Democrats.
But interestingly, the saxophone ended up empowering three very disenfranchised groups in America and they would be African-Americans, women and children.
The saxophone is so flexible in its sound, it can sound like an oboe, a bassoon, a French horn, a flute.
The farther out the guy got into the ether, the farther he had to climb up the musical scales in the saxophone family.
Sometimes that will lead him to pick up the saxophone an instrument on which he professes to be an amateur or to them both singing.
Mr. SEGELL: Well, the seedy reputation probably began in 1903 when the Vatican declared that the saxophone gave reasonable concern for disgust and scandal.
It wasn't long before Sonny earned the nickname "the Saxophone Colossus, " and became known as one of the greatest improvisers in the history of jazz.
The saxophone section caught his attention, and Parker hasn't looked back.
The sounds of soloists on the saxophone, the horn, the flute, and the clarinet flowed from the stage one by one, and finally the trumpet solos began.
The king's charisma, intelligence, talents (from playing the saxophone to rain-making, a science in which he holds a European patent) and deep concern for his people's welfare make him adored at home and admired around the world.
And just a couple of years ago, the saxophone player strapped his horn around my neck and showed me where to place my fingers on the keyboard and how to blow, and I did and I felt utterly transported.
But because the saxophone had been invented in the 1840s, it had missed out on all the great music that was written in the 18th century, and when people heard the horn they had no desire to rewrite that music to include the saxophone in it.
' And then in the teens, when there was the dance craze in America and everyone was boogalooing and doing a lot of dirty dancing in the seedier nightclubs, which is naturally where the saxophone gravitated to, the Ladies' Home Journal wrote that the saxophone rendered listeners incapable of distinguishing between right and wrong and evil and good.
Though his vocal parts sometimes meandered, Mr. Previn's orchestral writing was smart and evocative, encompassing hints of Benjamin Britten and touches of jazz, like the sinuous saxophone riffs that color the rhapsodic, earthy relationship of Stella and Stanley.
It was during her time there that she began singing in church choirs and taking piano lessons, even trying out the alto saxophone.
In the late 1970s, Lake co-founded the World Saxophone Quartet.
At first, Coleman struggled to find his own sound on the alto saxophone, but eventually developed his own formulas of composition, breaking down traditional definitions of harmony and melody.
Bill Clinton's best-known hobby was playing the tenor saxophone.
NPR's Roy Hurst has this profile of the legendary tenor saxophone player.
His trademark sound and laid-back swing--he said he wanted to sound like a dry martini--hinted at the influence of tenor saxophone master Lester Young , a tendency shared by many white saxophonists of the time.
The lower notes of his saxophone embody a powerful, penetrating edge, while the upper ones can be floating and fragile.
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The small cast showed excellent chemistry in a variety of music and dance performances throughout the show, with percussion, sound effects and even a saxophone solo by the versatile Brian Hargreaves adding to his acting workload.
And when the heck did that saxophone player show up playing "Auld Lang Syne"?
And I thought to Tommy, the original has a saxophone solo on it.
Born in Norfolk, Virginia, Clemons began playing saxophone at the age of nine after receiving one unexpectedly from his father for Christmas.
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