Tony Scott wasn't a big fan of vibrato. Using it while playing his clarinet would only have smoothed out his sound and landed him in the shadows of Artie Shaw and Buddy DeFranco. Instead, he preferred to stand out with a stripped down and somewhat hoarse, high-register tone. To the uninitiated, Scott can sound a little sour and breathless, like someone …
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