Dave Liebman

Soprano sax wizard

by Piotr Michalowski

posted 11/1/2004

The soprano is a difficult and quirky saxophone to master. It was popular in classical music and jazz in the early decades of the last century but was eclipsed by its bigger and more reliable siblings, the alto and tenor. By the 1950s few people were playing the soprano, and it was mainly identified, in Europe at least, with the ecstatic playing of the New

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