[Dixielandjazz] Re: Trumpet high notes

[David Palmquist]

Mmhmm.  The difficulty with high-note kings is they usually prefer 
blasstissimo dynamics.  Ugly.  There's no need for that in the kind of 
music I like.  I don't recall what Louis Armstrong sounds like up high, but 
I know Cat could play the high notes with some finesse and restraint.  I'm 
not familiar with Mr. Faddis, so I can't comment on his work.

David in Delta






At 20:03 25-11-02, John Farrell 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