Peter Natterer

Peter Natterer: The Passing

by Ronald S. Russ
October 22, 2006

Electronic manipulation and saxophones go back a long time--remember reedman Rahsaan Roland Kirk's phrase “boogie electric"? The best-known might be tenor saxophonist Eddie Harris, who played the Varitone (an electric saxophone made by Selmer). Many have been known to blow electronic horns, including Michael Brecker, Marshall Allen and Wayne Shorter, to name but a few.What Austrian tenor saxophonist Peter Natterer brings to the table is an almost synthesizer-like quality in which he alternates between using and not using ...