| Re: Leading A Band
Seriously, I don't know the solution to that one. My training was that you go all out all the time. I remember Harvey Phillips one time saying that rehearsing should be the same as performing just without the audience being there. But you play the same. At Eastman it was similar, Barbara Butler on the one hand always asking, "Could you have played that any better?" and on the other side Bill Dobbins saying if you don't want to play all out put the horn down and don't play until you feel like really playing because if you don't want to play, just don't. Maybe it's like acting or something, you have to be able to turn on the intensity at any moment at any time. Thanks for bringing this up, it is a really huge and relevant issue.
Michael McLaughlin
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