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- From: kamine@is.rice.edu (Jorge Hershel Kamine)
- Subject: Re: Monk "book"
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- References: <SMEHTA.92Dec31143345@kwela.nynexst.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:38:36 GMT
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- In article <SMEHTA.92Dec31143345@kwela.nynexst.com> smehta@nynexst.com writes:
- >and I refer you to Simpkins' bio again, the story goes that Coltrane
- >almost stumbled upon the soprano. Apparently, they were returning to
- >NYC from a gig and made a pit stop where one of the (unnamed) sidemen
- >got left behind by mistake. Coltrane took his case for safekeeping
- >but then decided to open it and found a soprano sax inside which he
- >started fooling around with. The rest, I guess, is history :-)
- I think this is in conflict with _Chasin' the Trane_. I can't
- remember with a great degree of clarity, but I thought he had
- started on soprano in his attempt to play in the range he heard
- in his head (i.e., higher than the tenor). I'll have to go back
- and check, but I don't think it was an accident of the type you
- sopke of. In fact, I seem to remember he was impressed with
- Sidney Bechet's work on soprano, and that also motivated him.
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- * Jorge Kamine Arreola * "An eye for an eye leaves two men blind."
- * email: kamine@is.rice.edu * -Edward James Olmos
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