---Mike Yates <mikey+ at pitt.edu> wrote:
>
> Friends,
>
> This passage from Jameson is very fine. But, how is it that a violin
> expresses life but a saxophone only simulates it? A jazz saxophone,
for
> example, certainly seems capable of great expressiveness.
Players like Gianni Gebbia and Peter van Bergen open up tremendous possibilities with the saxophone (and of course there's Evan Parker). It seems to me the lungs afford if not more at least equally vast expressive possibilites to fingers on a violin. It does depend on the musician though.
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