| Tony nailed my feelings about trumpet sections. My " Chicken or Egg" line referred to the need for music to be on the stand for those players to do what they do best. Big Band is arranger-driven.<<<<Wilmer
I understood the gist of your remarks but there are times when a Jazz band takes off with little to work with or without any rehearsal ...case in point
Eddie Harris,Les McCann,Benny Bailey,Leroy Vinnegar,Donald Dean
combustive explosion on "Swiss Movement" .
Count Basie said it best when he said:
It's the way you play that makes it . Play like you play. Play like you think, and then you got it, if you're going to get it. And whatever you get, that's you, so that's your story.
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"Clark Terry - C.T.,as his friends call him,is not only a master of the trumpet and flugelhorn,but a master musician and a leader to the manor born." - Dan Morgenstern. |