[guido]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/us/07cnccatalano.html?ref=music

Nice piece!

 

[hgiles]

interesting...i knew he played a silver Z in the beginning..then lost it and was playing a reg lacquered Z a few years ago...looks like he found a silver Z he likes! Among others of course!

 

[Tim Price]

Frank plays his [email protected]@ of btw

 

[drwhippet]

Note Catalano's observation toward the end of the story: "He reeled off the model numbers, years of manufacture and other differentiating features imperceptible to those who do not play sax, and the distinctive qualities that brass, gold and silver each lend to a horn’s sound."

It appears that Buck Laughlin may have been on to something when he wrote in a recent thread that this forum is the only place where's he's encountered the (rather militant I might add) doctrine that "materials don't matter."

I think in the real world (outside the vacuum of this forum full of hobbyists and students and the opportunists who try to sell to both their cheap imported knock-offs of classic pro horns--which might explain the need to forward said argument), they matter very much to pros like Catalano--and even earlier--Zoot Sims, who famously intoned that the quality of the metal was what made his 1934 Selmer sound the way it did.

 

[13020]

Found interesting his comment that the alto (article said he never plays it in public, but owns 2 dozen of them) was "the best from a clarity-of-voice standpoint."

 

[Honeyboy]

Also check out the 9 part clinic he does as well. Nice little gems of info.

 

[piwikiwi]

Note Catalano's observation toward the end of the story: "He reeled off the model numbers, years of manufacture and other differentiating features imperceptible to those who do not play sax, and the distinctive qualities that brass, gold and silver each lend to a horn's sound."

It appears that Buck Laughlin may have been on to something when he wrote in a recent thread that this forum is the only place where's he's encountered the (rather militant I might add) doctrine that "materials don't matter."

I think in the real world (outside the vacuum of this forum full of hobbyists and students and the opportunists who try to sell to both their cheap imported knock-offs of classic pro horns--which might explain the need to forward said argument), they matter very much to pros like Catalano--and even earlier--Zoot Sims, who famously intoned that the quality of the metal was what made his 1934 Selmer sound the way it did.

Well the guy who started this "doctrine" is adolph sax. Catalano maybe a great player but he is not a scientist.