[Dixielandjazz] Trumpet high notes

[David Livingston]

Yes, John, bands would have high note specialists. In
the early 50's that is what Maynard Ferguson's job was
in Stan Kenton's band. Kenton already had a solid lead
player in Buddy Childers. Maynard would sit on one of
the lower books until his high notes where needed.
Then he would let it rip. Cat Anderson was another
with Duke Ellington but I never have cared for the way
he sounded up there.

There are a lot of players today that can play in the
extreme register but unfortunately, most of them
aren't making music when they do.


--- John Farrell <stridepiano@tesco.net> wrote:
> David Palmquist said :
> 
> " Cat (Anderson) did Summertime up high"
> 
> So did Jon Faddis on his duet recording with Oscar
> Peterson. Some of the
> trumpet players I've used in my big band can hit
> notes way up in the
> stratosphere, they told me that the difficulty is
> not reaching the notes but
> maintaining power in the superhigh register. Is it
> true that some bands
> employ high note specialists called "screamers"
> whose sole function is to
> play notes written in the dog whistle range?
> 
> John Farrell
> stridepiano@tesco.net
>
http://homepages.tesco.net/~stridepiano/midifiles.htm
> 
> 
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David Livingston
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