I disagree with the comment about using extended techniques on the sax just souding like "zorn". First of all zorn is using many of the same techniques explored in the 60s and 70s by both american and european free jazz artists. What he has done is taken the technique and applied it in his own context. He sounds like himself. And if you can master these techniques and apply your own ideas you can sound like yourself and not zorn. Because he applied techniques that the likes of Parker, Brotzmann, ayler, et al doesn't mean he sounds like them. Zorn's magic is in his composition style. He was not chained to the jazz composition style and married influence from a great many areas. For sure he may have come up with new techniques on the horn but if one were to master these skills and play their own thing, surely they can sound like themselves. It is challenging but the uniqueness of sound is not dependant on technique as much as it depends on just the sheer creativity of the artist. Why are we still playing basically the same damn instruments for the past few centuries? Wouldn't it be silly to say the music of the past few centuries sounds all the same. Now maybe that is the land of new possibilities-new instruments. But my point is that using the technique of Zorn will not make you sound like Zorn. I get annoyed when people make comments like-this guys sounds like so-and-so. Like Matthew Shipp for example. He is so often said to be a Taylor emulate. But I am sorry, Shipp sounds like Shipp and I think quite distant from what Taylor does. One cannot doubt he is influenced by Taylor, but common! I think people don't listen well, and if they don't listen close they will say (and do) that all the music sounds the same. But one can say that about all classical music, or all heavy metal, or all what have you. And if that is the case, why listen to music at all if you are not going to really listen. You may not have meant what I am talking about but I had to vent this out, as I have heard similar comments much lately and had to let that out. Jared _________________________________________________________________
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