wtfunny wrote:
Armstronglivs wrote:
Pop is music for kids. Every generation thinks the music of their youth was the best. There's a good chance you'll grow out of it. Then you'll hear the saxophone - or any other instrument - is better than just providing accompaniment to yet another teenage anthem.
That was to me? If so, you clearly don't know who Michael Brecker was.
Fwiw, the Beatles wrote pop music. So did the Stones, Zep, Jimi, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, The Police, Floyd, ad infinitum.
No, it wasn't in response to you. And I do know who Brecker is/was. Good, but still not Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, or Parker - the list goes on. I don't care much for Coltrane, despite his reputation. But pop is largely overrated and aimed chiefly at the non-musical - or it wouldn't sell to the masses - and it rarely does justice to any instrument, let alone the sax. (Stevie Wonder, Aretha, and Ray Charles being brilliant exceptions. )