Talk:Saxophonist

Shouldn't the bottom say, more correctly, 'sax players in the simpsons'? I say we add either more saxophonists from fiction, I can't think of any, or get rid of the Simpsons references. -Tubby

I say kill the simpsons reference! -- Tarquin

Lisa is a rotten sax player. Lousy. I mean this quite seriously. Whoever is dubbing her is just noodling, and if Bleeding Gums is her teacher then him too. There are a thousand studio guys who could have done a better job. Unless those two could get lost in a longer list of fictional sax players, then let's bounce them. Ike Quebec, Red Prysock, and Arnett Cobb have lived in vain if these two stay, and we don't have articles on any of them. Racking my brain, the only fictional sax player I can think of appears on the Stan Freberg parody of rock and roll where he honks so much the studio is invaded by geese.Ortolan88

"Bleeding Gums" Murphy can go, but I think Lisa is famous enough to make the list; she is probably more "real" to many people than Adolphe Sax himself. Instead of strictly fictional characters, we could change it into a list of non-professional musicians, i.e. people who are famous for something besides their sax playing: Bill Clinton, for example. -- Merphant

Is there any particular reason this page is at Saxophonist rather than List of saxophonists? It seems like it would be better suited to being officially a list; I can't think of anything substantive to say in saxophonist that wouldn't be better suited to saxophone except listing players. Mindspillage 23:03, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Agreed - I'll fix it myself shortly if nobody beats me to it. ¦ Reisio 10:27, 2005 July 27 (UTC)

It probably would have been better to do a page move, rather than copy the content into a new article. I have made the old page into a redirect, which I guess will accomplish the same thing. I'm thinking that the articles that still link [to "Saxophonist"] (i.e. when the word "saxophonist" occurs) should, for the most part, link to the main Saxophone article instead (or in any event, should skip the redirect). I'll try to get started on that task in a bit. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 17:10, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

I think Saxophonist has a useful place, even if only a stub. A list of saxophonists does not explain what a saxophonist is, or anything associated with the word - that's why I made a new article instead of moving this one. ¦ Reisio 18:25, 2005 July 27 (UTC)

Yes, but given that there is already a Saxophone article, would Saxophonist ever expand much past a dictionary definition? At least, this is what I got out of Mindspillage's original suggestion. I see an article for violinist that might be along the lines of what you had in mind. Note, on the other hand, that guitarist looks much the same as this article did, and could rightly be called "List of guitarists." Also compare with flautist and trumpeter. There's not much precedent either way, based on these examples. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 19:25, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

It's fine by me, but Saxophonist is still redirecting to List of saxophonists and not Saxophone. ¦ Reisio 20:08, 2005 July 27 (UTC)

I guess I should have just left everything alone ;). Since the content used to be at "Saxophonist," it made sense to redirect to the new "List of Saxophonists." What I meant was go through the list of articles that link to "Saxophonist" and point them to "Saxophone" instead (my rationale is that the person reading the article knows the subject is a saxophonist, so have the link point to "Saxophone" since a list of other saxophonists won't mean as much). Which, though time-consuming, is something I'm perfectly happy to do. But maybe it's better to leave it like you had it, if we can expand "Saxophonist." -- Gyrofrog (talk) 21:01, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

OK, now that the elevator has finally reached the top floor I can see how it would make more sense to redirect "Saxophonist" to "Saxophone." -- Gyrofrog (talk) 23:54, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

        Michael Antunes is a saxophonist from John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band.