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Dan Millheim · 10-06-2006, 04:38 PM

OK "Peeps" I need some opinions. It is my day off and I am sitting in the 'ol leather "easy" listening to some great jazz. I plop on Art Farmers "Tonk" CD for the umpteenth time and can't shake a theory I have come to. Oh man, am I going to get in trouble for this. "TONK" is TANK! I can't stand the TONE Art gets from the mythical Flumpet. I know it was a first gen. issue but it sounds so pinched and thin and if I had not heard others get an amazing sultry dark sound from this horn I would have no interest in this instrument from this recording...it is painful! Not trying to bash the departed leads me to another theory I have. Who cares, right (ha).

(Some)Technical Jazz players tend to sound the same way to me when they try slower, emotive, ballad stuff. I mean give them a bunch of notes and I am in awe of their changes, technique, articulation, etc., but slow it down and blow and it is OFTEN, not always, a big NO for me? Same goes for "screamers" playing schmooze...yipes! Maybe it's just me or it is based on their style of playing, equipment choices and focus of sound. If it is, and IMHO it is, then why do they record stuff and risk their commercial success by going outside their amazing focus and mastery?

OK, I said it...now come after me, but be gentle. The ice pack in the fridge would require me to get off my comfortable chair ha.

10-06-2006, 04:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
Dan Millheim Pianissimo User Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Fort Worth ,TX Posts: 236	Art Farmer (TONK) is it just me? OK "Peeps" I need some opinions. It is my day off and I am sitting in the 'ol leather "easy" listening to some great jazz. I plop on Art Farmers "Tonk" CD for the umpteenth time and can't shake a theory I have come to. Oh man, am I going to get in trouble for this. "TONK" is TANK! I can't stand the TONE Art gets from the mythical Flumpet. I know it was a first gen. issue but it sounds so pinched and thin and if I had not heard others get an amazing sultry dark sound from this horn I would have no interest in this instrument from this recording...it is painful! Not trying to bash the departed leads me to another theory I have. Who cares, right (ha). (Some)Technical Jazz players tend to sound the same way to me when they try slower, emotive, ballad stuff. I mean give them a bunch of notes and I am in awe of their changes, technique, articulation, etc., but slow it down and blow and it is OFTEN, not always, a big NO for me? Same goes for "screamers" playing schmooze...yipes! Maybe it's just me or it is based on their style of playing, equipment choices and focus of sound. If it is, and IMHO it is, then why do they record stuff and risk their commercial success by going outside their amazing focus and mastery? OK, I said it...now come after me, but be gentle. The ice pack in the fridge would require me to get off my comfortable chair ha. __________________ Eclipse Custom XLR (Beyond beautiful 24k scratch) gold (05 Eclipse Contest Horn) Getzen Genesis (Beautiful 24k scratch gold) Wiseman Double Case (10% discount code: T624) Monette/Harrelson B1-1 prana custom one off. Horns/MPC Cryo'ed at Cryo-parts.com