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The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing

Gerry Mulligan

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Gerry Mulligan
American - Musician
April 6, 1927 - January 20, 1996

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.

Gerry Mulligan

I bought a tenor but I haven't dedicated the time to it, plus I haven't found a mouthpiece that I like as of yet. I've been doing a lot of mouthpiece searching for the alto in the last few years and now that that's cooled out maybe I can begin the search for a tenor mouthpiece. After doing it for the alto, I just haven't felt like looking for any more mouthpieces. You play both, right?

Charles McPherson

I wanted to be Gerry Mulligan, only, see, I didn't have any kind of technique. So I thought, well, baritone sax is kind of easier; I can manage that - except I couldn't afford a baritone, so I bought an alto, which was the same fingering.

David Bowie

Well, you know, the first step I took was to drop the alto and baritone and concentrate on tenor exclusively, a decision I've never really looked back on with any regret. Another thing was that I was 17 when I moved up there, and my listening had really focused on freer music in the previous couple of years- Coltrane was playing with his expanded group, and everyone was listening closely to that, and we were into Shepp and Ayler as well.

David S. Ware

Alto (saxophone) is just a very hard instrument; there's so few people that play it really well. I feel it's the best one, too, now. At first I didn't feel that way; I wanted to be a tenor player. It took a long time for me to feel that alto was the most expressive of the saxophones.

Art Pepper

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.

Gerry Mulligan

So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone

Gerry Mulligan

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

George Bernard Shaw

Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.

Gerry Mulligan

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

Placido Domingo

I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it.

Colin Meloy

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra

Gerry Mulligan

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.

Gerry Mulligan

I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

When I was in grade school and high school, I did a lot of chorale singing. And the chorus would be tenor, bass, and alto and soprano.

Lee Ranaldo

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

Steve Lacy

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