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2000-07-26

 
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 18:24:05 +0000
From: Lawrence de Martin
Subject: Re: [CB] Lenny Pickett

Grant Green wrote:

> Unfortunately, it is not easy to pick out the tenor sarrusophone, ... Perhaps I just need to crank it up louder.

Turning it up will make the problem worse.  You need to replace those Bose.  They are famous for cone breakup and intermodulation distortion, anomalies that make discrimination of brass voices difficult.

I know it's hard for musicians to spend money on reproduction systems; but for less than the cost of a hard-shell case you could get a pair of quite musical mini-monitors to go with your subwoofer.

Larry de Martin
(the token stereo nut)

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From: LeliaLoban
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 20:41:50 EDT
Subject: [CB] Another Lenny Pickett

 
 >Grant,
 >Could you please tell me all the CD's you know of Lenny Pickett
 >soloing on?  Not neccessarily on the surrusophone, and not on tenor
 >sax.  He's always been one of my heros, along with Scott Robinson
 >and James Carter, for his doubling on unique horns.  Thank you very
 >much!
 >Jeff Willis
 
 Grant Green wrote,
 >>Here is how I tracked them down: go to CDNow (http://www.cdnow.com),  >>

Another source that includes out of print records:

 AMG All Music Guide CD search, info

The All-Music Guide goes way back into the early days of recording history
for many artists.  Great resource.  You can also use it to cross-reference
Lenny Pickett playing with whomever.

Lelia
(Quick note because we've got Invasion of the Body-Snatchers tonight --
houseguests!  Had to tell about a dozen freeloading saxophones to move out
for the night.  They're not happy.  I told 'em, hey, it's a guest bedroom,
not a flophouse for dirty old horns.
 

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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:30:05 -0700
From: Grant Green
Subject: Re: [CB] Lenny Pickett

At 06:24 PM 7/25/00 +0000, you wrote:
>Turning it up will make the problem worse.  You need to replace those
>Bose.  They are famous for cone breakup and intermodulation distortion,
>anomalies that make discrimination of brass voices difficult.
>
>I know it's hard for musicians to spend money on reproduction systems; but
>for less than the cost of a hard-shell case you could get a pair of quite
>musical mini-monitors to go with your subwoofer.
>
>Larry de Martin
>(the token stereo nut)

Actually, the problem is worse than you realize: the initial listening was
done in my office, over tiny sattelite computer speakers :-(

Grant
 
 

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From: Heliconman
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 01:28:16 EDT
Subject: Re: [CB] Lenny Pickett

In a message dated 7/25/00 10:33:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, gdgreen writes:

<< Actually, the problem is worse than you realize: the initial listening was
 done in my office, over tiny sattelite computer speakers :-(
  >>
You need a graphic equalizer with a headphone jack!
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 11:26:54 -0800
From: Andrew Stiller
Subject: [CB] wot, no contrabasses?

Does it strike anyone else as ironic that apparently the only
contrabass instrument not represented on this list is the one that is
actually called "contrabass"?

--
Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press

http://www.netcom.com/~kallisti

Ut Sol inter planetas, Ita MUSICA inter Artes liberales in medio radiat.
--Heinrich Schuetz, 1640
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:42:14 -0400
From: michael c grogg
Subject: [CB] wot, no contrabasses?

We ARE represented here, there just isn't much to say, the instrument has
developed over hundreds of years and is very mature, as oppossed to the
so called contrabass woodwinds that are still undergoing development.

>;->    (evil grin and a wink)

Michael Grogg
Tuba, Contrabass, and anything else that needs to be played.

> Does it strike anyone else as ironic that apparently the only
> contrabass instrument not represented on this list is the one that
> is actually called "contrabass"?
>
> --
> Andrew Stiller
> Kallisti Music Press
 

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