Name a White Alto Player

[Holy Ghost]

Sure, I'm going to imagine that he has been mentioned already in this thread, but I am going to espouse that Art is one of those great alto players that belong here. 

[JSngry]

https://youtu.be/npH-DULg5lI?si=osrh0UItFESs0m-k

[danasgoodstuff]

I hope Allen is ok, he's always been unfailingly nice to me.

[danasgoodstuff]

I did check his FaceBook and he's posted recently, so...

[Kevin Bresnahan]

4 hours ago, danasgoodstuff said:

I did check his FaceBook and he's posted recently, so...

Allen's back to posting on these forums.

[AllenLowe]

12 hours ago, danasgoodstuff said:

I hope Allen is ok, he's always been unfailingly nice to me.

thanks for saying that, not everyone here agrees that I am a benign presence. 

[optatio]

 

Emil Mangelsdorff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Mangelsdorff, older brother of Albert Mangelsdorff 

Edited 4 hours ago by optatio

[sgcim]

I just got a call from a white alto player, who leads one of the big bands play in, and occasionally write and arrange for.

We've got a gig coming up, and he asks me to write an alto feature for him. He doesn't mention money, so I gave him the alto part to an old Strozier chart I wrote, and told him to practice it, cause it's too hard to sight read, as he proved when he tried to play it, and gave up after a number of bars. He owns an entire block in NYC, so I know he needs time to work on it...

Of course, he forgot that he tried to play it already. 

So he calls me and tells me that it sounds too classical to him (?)

I said Classical? What the hell sounds classical about it?

Now, I had given it to another band, and because Strozier sounds bluesy, I wrote the word bluesy at the beginning. The white alto player, who is a great Phil Woods-type player, took the word too literally, and started growling and moaning at the end, marring what WAS a perfect performance. Unfortunately, the trumpet section added to my misery by ignoring the word "MUTE" and played OPEN, drowning out the poor alto player's stellar performance. I even yelled at them to put on their effing mutes, but they ignored me. After it was over. I asked them why they didn't use mutes. They said I didn't write MUTE, so I point to the word "MUTE" on the most annoying guy's part. He said, " you wrote it in the wrong place."

I said, "that's where they put it in MuseScore"  The guy says, "that's not the way it's supposed to be". I gave up.

I took the trumpet parts home and wrote MUTE on each one. Then I took the 1st alto part out and wrote the name "Phil Woods' on it, because I know this guy never heard of FS.

So  the leader said to me on the phone, that's why I said it was a classical piece, because Phil used to play the Ibert and Glazunov pieces, and it sounds like that. 

I said "But this is jazz; it's with a big band not an orchestra. So he said, "bring it down. We'll check it out.' I pretty much live to hear my shit played, so I said, okay.

BTW, to name a white alto player, I was thinking of naming Sheila Cooper, who I mentioned in the "Artists" section, but then found out she had passed, so I did an RIP on her.

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