One reason was definitely for its visual appeal. A lot of music in the eighties was created with video clips in mind and sax solos look cool. read more
Charlie Parker, one of America’s most famous and innovative sax players ever, was so popular he was like a god. “Musicians did heroin in the hopes of playing like Charlie Parker,” Jeff Harrington, a professor of woodwinds at Berklee College of Music and a saxophone player, told me. read more