[kreacher]

Pretty good, didn't quite fancy the violin part though.

 

[mascio]

Cool. That was fun.

 

[Bloo Dog]

MY GOD! I love it! Georg Telemann is probably spinning in his grave, but it is wonderful. I admire Lucie Horsch's vision and ambition. I listened to it four times.

Those who like this might want to try out The Turtle Island Quartet's reworking of A Love Supreme.

Got any more interesting things like this?

 

[Arundo Donax]

That was amazing. I've never heard the alto recorder played so well before.

 

[tomonsax]

WOW-it is fun! and i don'think Telemann would be spinning ;-)

 

[kreacher]

Got any more interesting things like this?

Well, I listen to a lot of stuff I find interesting, I just don't know your tastes!

That was amazing. I've never heard the alto recorder played so well before.

Lucie Horsch is a fantastic player, a virtuoso that is in the making really, and a bright promise for the future of the instrument.

 

[KeithL]

This guy has been posting similar stuff for years:

Clifford Brown Solo on recorder;

Mike Brecker solo on recorder;

and a WDR big band recorder solo.....

 

[mmichel]

This guy has been posting similar stuff for years:

Clifford Brown Solo on recorder;

Mike Brecker solo on recorder;

and a WDR big band recorder solo.....

Thanks for this, I'd never heard of him (Benoît Sauvé). This is amazing: real jazz recorder!

He nails the inflections and articulation, and he can actually improvise (really well)!

 

[Grumps]

Heck, that was a treat. And I actually dug the violin along with it. Gave it that old time gypsy-jazz flavor.

Funny thing about recorder, I wonder how many of us actually played one before taking up saxophone. When I was in elementary school, you couldn't play saxophone until fourth grade, but you could play recorder in third. So for a year, it was my axe. Well... that is until I took it up again with my '80s alternative band. For that, I dubbed it "jungle flute"... and I'll spare you the sound clip.

 

[Arundo Donax]

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Funny thing about recorder, I wonder how many of us actually played one before taking up saxophone. When I was in elementary school, you couldn't play saxophone until fourth grade, but you could play recorder in third. So for a year, it was my axe...

The school I went to had no musical instruments of any kind at all except for a single autoharp, which was always played by the same student year after year. So the saxophone was my very first instrument and I was over 50 when I started taking lessons.

I now have five recorders (S S A A T), simply because I had an itch to spend a little money at my regular music store. I could've had a used wooden Moeck bass recorder for under $200. I had first pick, but idiotically passed it up "because it's in F". It was sold within the hour. Stupido!

 

[mmichel]

Funny thing about recorder, I wonder how many of us actually played one before taking up saxophone. When I was in elementary school, you couldn't play saxophone until fourth grade, but you could play recorder in third.

My experience was similar. When I was in elementary school (in the 80's), they gave us all plastic recorders in the third or fourth grade, which we then played for a couple of years. However, my school district was perpetually on an austerity budget. So while kids in neighboring school districts started playing "real" instruments in 4th grade, our band & orchestra programs did not start until the 7th grade.

Additionally, since so many students wanted to play saxophone, they made us play clarinet for at least a year before we could switch.

So, for me it was soprano recorder (around 4th grade) --> clarinet (7th grade) --> alto saxophone (8th grade).

 

[Arundo Donax]

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Additionally, since so many students wanted to play saxophone, they made us play clarinet for at least a year before we could switch.
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Interesting! Looking back on that, do you think learning the clarinet first has helped you overall? Maybe clarinet technique doesn't directly translate to saxophone skills, but my impression is that for people who double, those who started with clarinet have it much easier than those going from sax to clarinet.

 

[mmichel]

Interesting! Looking back on that, do you think learning the clarinet first has helped you overall? Maybe clarinet technique doesn't directly translate to saxophone skills, but my impression is that for people who double, those who started with clarinet have it much easier than those going from sax to clarinet.

I don't know whether it helped me with saxophone per se (I got the impression that this rule was more about bolstering the clarinet section and culling the less dedicated players than about pedagogy), but it certainly helped me later when I needed to double.

Saxophone is definitely easier to get started on (i.e., easier to play badly) than is clarinet. So if the goal were to get more kids interested in playing, teaching them saxophone first, then clarinet, would probably result in less attrition.