I was tempted to jettison this blog and talk about the US mid-terms, expressing a mix of joy and relief – plus a natural anxiety that the pendulum could swing again. I’m not a natural cynic but have been bruised! But for now, I’m happy – and will write about something where the joy is unalloyed, the saxophone. It’s National Saxophone Day today. I don’t know who decides these things, but National Saxophone Day is one I just have to observe, the sax having given me so much… – the joyous rhythm of Illinois Jacquet, the contrasts between the arpeggios of Coleman Hawkins and lines of Lester Young, the flurry of notes in a Bird solo, the innovations of Coltrane, the subtones of Ben Webster.
https://tonyearnshaw.substack.com/p/the-joy-of-sax
