| I wish there was a tape of those evenings! I'll bet you didn't feel disadvantaged in any way using the C. My guess would be that tradition is the reason for the Bb in jazz, more than anything else. Very few of the jazz trumpet greats would ever have played in a orchestral trumpet setting, and the C doesn't seem to be used much outside of that context, other than in "legit" chamber music. I read somewhere that Miles tried a C for a while, but I have no idea if he recorded with it. |