Description: Yes we combine shipping for most multiple item purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1976 Sonny Fortune Jazz Saxophone Music Interview - 3-Page Vintage Article Original, Vintage Magazine ArticlePage Size: Approx. 8" x 11" (21 cm x 28 cm) each pageCondition: Good Sonny Fortune changes musical moods assome of us change records. He has done hisstints with bebop oriented groups, moved onto Latin music, had his stay with Miles Davis,and is currently doing what he wants to do,writing and being a saxophonist who express-es himself.His musical forebears were his fellowPhiladelphians. Check Leonard Feather forthe complete scroll of Brotherly Lovers.Fortune: Between the fact that so many ofus have come out of Philly and GranoffsSchool of Music and studying with RolandWiggins, music director at Amherst, I be-came exposed to a lot of music, all kinds.Graduates of Granoff include John Coltraneand Lee Morgan. It was just a music schoolthat many of us passed through. It had bothprivate courses and regular formal classes, soyou had both ends of it. I attended for the ba-sics, to learn the instrument and theory.Smith: From the way you talk I take it youwere a reedman from the start.Fortune: Yeah. I didn’t get into it until 1was 18 when a schoolmate trumpet playercaught my ear. I was just hanging on the cor-ner, nothing much happening, when I heardnames like Miles Davis and Charlie Parker.Mind you, this was 1957, two years after Birdhad died. I was just waking up. I asked whohe was, and I decided to play the horn. I real-ly don’t know why. Nobody in my familyplayed an instrument, but I felt a drive to doit. You see I had this idea that in about threemonths I was going to terrorize the world. Ifound that after three months I was still hav-ing trouble with a C scale. So 1 put it in thecloset for awhile. It wasn’t until a year laterthat I again tried to do something with the in-strument. I remember just listening to recordsover and over and was completely dumb-founded as to what those cats were doing.My first set of chords were Night In Tunisiaand I played the hell out of those chords.Then I listened to the recording and foundthat those cats were playing everything ex-cept what I was studying. Now thechronology escapes me, but those are some ofthe horrible things I remember. I say “hor-rible” because of the frustration. It seems allI can remember was forlorn hopes, dreams Ithought I could never attain.Smith: When did you seriously begin to“hear” Bird? I pick him because at 17, in1957, and in Philadelphia, you obviouslyweren’t catching up on your Johnny Hodges.Nor is your style reminiscent of Benny Car-ter.Fortune: Right on all counts. Somewherearound eight to ten months after I bought analto I bought Bird And Strings. I could takethat; everything else was kind of hard on me.One of the things that fascinates me withthis music called jazz, whatever that is, is thatit’s another kind of music. I listened when Iwas a teenager, and I listen to it now and Iask myself, “Wow, you mean to tell me I wasinto that?” I listened to Bird And Strings thenand I will listen to it now, and I’ll hear some-thing that I didn’t hear a year ago. As yougrow and develop in the music, you come tohear more than you did at such-and-such age... 14922-AL-760812-75
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