From fortepianonj@yahoo.com Fri Feb 11 09:36:18 2005
Subject:Re: JOS Philadelphia Inquirer Obit

The funeral is next Wednesday in Philly. I'm going to
try to go.

FP

--- mummer7 wrote:

>
> Today's paper includes the following in the
> "Clearing the Record"
> column:
>
> "An obituary yesterday for the jazz organist Jimmy
> Smith misstated
> the kind of saxophone played by John Coltrane. It
> was the tenor
> saxophone."
>
> Fortunately, we don't have to do such things.
>
> "During his last solo, the keyboard player laid a
> klinker. It was
> his intention to hit all of the notes of that run
> while playing the
> correct left hand chord."
>
> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, "g_e_marshall"
>
> wrote:
> >
> > Silly "Staff Writer"! "Annette, today you're on
> Jazz duty."
> >
> > I wonder if they meant tenor, which he obviously
> played most, or
> > soprano, which one could argue he did (re)invent
> as a jazz
> instrument?
> >
> > Greg
> >
>
>


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