Chords for Henri SELMER Paris, Wayne Shorter & his saxophones

_ _ _ I can actually with the series three soprano I can try to I wrote a piece of
music as a commissioned piece of music and we had one French horn ten other
pieces with French horn and when I joined in with the French horn I could
almost you can almost _ _ imitate certain parts of the French horn so that the
French horn became two French horns instead of you know two and a half I
wanted to sound a broader sound so I would join in with the French horn _ this
horn has that quality the player has to maybe find it you know find it it's
according to what what kind of how far you want to go in sound and music you
know so the horn possesses many qualities that the player that is the
players duty to find the qualities you can explore many kinds of flip tones and
and textures and _ _ and not take it for granted a lot of people take it for
granted but they when they play this soprano _ _ _ _ they _ will they will
automatically _ have a nasal sound sort of a reedy nasal sound because when I play
this [G] horn people ask me after is that a if was they don't see it but they say I
heard a French horn I heard a what do you call it them a [N] flugelhorn sound I
heard a fugal horn sound I didn't see anybody playing a flugelhorn or French
horn that's another because when the band is playing sometimes I put the horn
and play to the side and like like a long time I tried to do that at the
classroom when we were here with them on jazz day in Paris and I say I saw some
eyes I tried to do that and some of the children they're like I thought I said
maybe I said maybe French one I tried to you know it's a horn that works many
different ways and it's up to me up to the artist up to the player to explore
this allows you to explore others don't yeah they many of the horns lock into
the nanny goat sound you know the new tenor was given to me by the band as a
present for my 80th birthday the series 3 Selmer tenor the neck that came with
the horn when I was at home playing it it was more of a cushion cushion open _ _ _ _
_ personal sound initial sound that I could you you could almost like like the
good old musicians say if you if you can talk through your horn you have the neck
the mouthpiece mostly and talk through it I'd like to say a lot of people
should try the saxophones that are being made now the series 3 or Selmer
and there is much more room to express _ yourself Selmer just like the country of
France embraced this the the new invention of all those facts just like
embrace the being a country of culture itself was open to a brief embracing
other new ideas from the painters and everything and some musicians who came
from America immigrated migrated with ideas and _ _ [G] _
so I think we've a Selmer as a
visionary _ industry rather than just an industry that makes makes [F] musical
instruments you know there's a visionary something that's being carried on
through the Selmer line the family line and other people that they you know
employed to be a part of the team I didn't ask if if _ Sonny Rollins or what
do they play what do they play I just heard that this sound but also I just
heard the name Selmer he said this is the top of the line top of the line and
I got my first mark six around _ [G] _ _ _
1952 51 something like that and I noticed that
mark six this that's that Selmer was a Selmer that I used all through the Art
Blakey years the five years I played with Art Blakey and going into in Miles
Davis years even though I was stolen but I got another Selmer and it was always
Selmer I never I never had played another horn with another name if they
want you want to go as far as you you can't you want to go without stopping _
it's best to ride I was it to ride in this Selmer which is like [N] akin to the
Rolls-Royce of instruments the Selmer is the vehicle to to use it's the vehicle
that would take you as far and even further than you would you would like to
go if you want to stop you wouldn't want to stop if you want to maybe _ _ goes as far
as trying to to contribute something to the _ _ _ audience on a human human level a
human form in other words becoming more and more human I think that the Selmer
gives you the _ _ opportunity to actually speak to people when you express yourself
musically