Sorry, should not have mentioned Reinhardt. (Felt the same as you after reading that book)
About the "non-floaters", Hickman says:
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Players that do NOT have floating jaws commonly angle the horn down a little more than usual (but not always) and have very firm CORNERS. These players include Crisara, DiMartino, Tarr, Andre, Severinsen, Dokshizer, Alpert, Mase, and many others, too.
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The perhaps more interesting point in Hickmans post is at the end. That some exercises work very well for some players. Since Clarke had "floating jaw" (according to Hickman) - long tones did not work well for him, but "moving long tones" did.
Dokshizer was "brough up" on long tones (his teacher, Tabakov, called them "white notes") and Dokshizer also has them in his own method book.
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