| Hi Thevor,
To tell you the truth, I don't know Pat Hession's playing all that well at this point. I'm sure I'll hear more of this guy.I'm sure he excellent if he's playing with Maynard's band.
If I was to rate any of the new lead players in Maynard's BBN days I'd have to list Scott Englebright and Roger Ingram. I would say some of the lead players deserving more attention are Greene, Pete Olstad and Steve Reid. Wayne Bergeron would be pre-BBN , I beleive.
Roger Ingram's playing has really matured from his days with MF and now his playing is in a catagory of very eleite lead trumpet players. He is, for my money, the best big band lead trumpet in his generation ( and many other's ) becasue of his superb style, intensity and the way, like Bill chase did , the got the whole band to play better when he played.
Larry |