{"id":35205,"date":"2012-12-11T10:58:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T18:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=35205"},"modified":"2024-06-03T15:36:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T22:36:38","slug":"a-saxophone-in-jazz-bands-pity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2012\/a-saxophone-in-jazz-bands-pity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Saxophone? In Jazz Bands? Pity."},"content":{"rendered":"

The saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax in the early 1840s; made its public d\u00e9but at the Paris Industrial Exhibition in 1844; and was patented in 1846. The instrument made it public performance d\u00e9but in 1844, when it was featured in Hector Berlioz’s choral work arrangement of Chant Sacre<\/em>, and at the Paris Conservatory’s performance of Georges Kastner’s opera Last King of Juda<\/em>. Fast forward nearly 80 years, and the saxophone had found a home in hot jazz.<\/p>\n

Given that by the 1920s the saxophone had been around for some 80 years, it is a bit surprising that the judiciary in London, England were uninformed as to the instrument’s existence:<\/p>\n

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What Is Saxophone? London Jurist Asks<\/h1>\n

London, Feb. 3 (AP).\u2014Seemingly information concerning things of the outer world is notoriously late in reaching the law courts or the learned judges keep up a fiction that they know nothing of the world’s happenings.<\/p>\n

Justice Eve. of the Chancery division of high court, has just discovered the existence of the saxophone. During a case the justice asked counsel, “What is a saxophone?”<\/p>\n

“I am told,” counsel replied, “it is an instrument resembling a cornet and is used in what I understood are called jazz bands.”<\/p>\n

Source: Feb. 3, 1926 edition of the Reading Eagle<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes, jazz was starting to gain a foothold<\/a> in the UK already in the 1920s. Obviously these learned individuals were not the jazz-lovin’ type however. Not only did they not know what saxophones were\u2014cornets my ass\u2014they also were not familiar with the new genre of music.<\/p>\n

Is that any different than today? Probably not. Although I’m not sure a judge would have asked a lawyer, “What’s dubstep?” After all, that’s what smart phones are for. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n

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…this is just my blog<\/em>. <\/span> My \u201creal\u201d <\/b> website is<\/span> www.bassic-sax.info.<\/a> If you\u2019re looking for <\/span> sax info<\/strong>,<\/span> you should check it out too.<\/span>There\u2019s lots<\/em> there! <\/span><\/div>\n
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