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Jacob

What else do you listen to besides saxophonists, or jazz music for that matter?

For me (in jazz), anyone from Miles to Louis Armstrong (trumpet), Art Tatum to McCoy Tyner (piano), Kenny Burrell to Jim Hall (guitar), JJ Johnson to Steve Turre (trombone), and vocalists such as Billie Holiday, John Hendricks, all the way up to singers like Diana Krall.

Aside from jazz, I listen to classical, blues, funk, alternative rock, early R&B (i.e. Ray Charles), classic rock, Cuban, early African (acoustic), early Japanese (acoustic), and more recently, ancient Egyptian (spiritual).

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Tully · Joined: 11 Sep 2005 Posts: 170 Location: Woodinville, WA

Primarily jazz and classical with various rock/alternative artists thrown in, but I'd like to think I'm pretty open to new stuff.
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Altosaxophonerules · Joined: 25 Aug 2005 Posts: 130 Location: Canada

I'm a fan of rock, gospel music, and sometimes some hip hop. Mostly Jazz though.

Yani-992 · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 20 Location: singapore

How do u listen to jazz??
I just can't hear and feel jazz like how people describe it

altosax4ever · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:52 pm Post subject: Beats

You've gotta feel the beat flowing through you, and then through your horn. It's the most incredible feeling in the world.
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CMelodyMan · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 1:18 am Post subject:

Besides instrumentals I listen to Rock and Roll, Rock, some of the very earliest recordings of hip hop, some of the very earliest recordings of rap, and Grunge.
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Cliff · Joined: 07 Dec 2005 Posts: 29 Location: Singapore

Jazz, New Age, Lounge, R&B, Soul, Bossa Nova...yeah, those. Smile

Valley Sax · Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 21 Location: Waynesboro, VA

I listen to almost anything, but must say I like the golden oldies, Blues, Rhythum & Blues, soul and rock & roll of the 60's and 70's. Some country music today isn't too bad. If you listen real carefully todays country is basically a rehash of rock and rhythum and blues of the 50's that I grew up with. Being trained along classical lines I still listen to a lot of that, especially sax stuff like Vincent Abatto and others of that period.
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Louis Scuderi · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:22 pm Post subject:

Listen to anything besides Jazz!!!!!!!!! What????
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JazZz · Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 170

I get made fun of for my music taste in school, I am the only 15 year old I know who listens to such a wide variety of stuff I listen to a lot of jazz, like 50% of my collection is jazz which is like 150 cd's. But the rest of it is rock, lounge, indie, funk, reggae, classical, electronic. My band teacher has gotten to the point he goes up to me every day and talks music history in jazz and rock and stuff.