[Dixielandjazz] Trumpet High Notes

[David Palmquist]

Doesn't surprise me.  He apparently was swarmed by jazz reporters in Paris 
once too, all trying to find out what sort of m/p he had.
Fun to have a secret, isn't it?

Speaking of secrets, I read somewhere that Ellington wrote his scores with 
wrong notes so that people copying over his shoulder at clubs wouldn't be 
able to steal his chords.

David in Delta


At 07:37 26-11-02, Robert S. Ringwald wrote:
>I have heard a funny story.
>
>It seems that Cat Anderson, when the set was over would take his special
>(High note) mouth piece out of his horn, put it in his pocket & replace it
>with a regular one.  The young groupie trumpet players would gather around
>his horn looking at it in wonder trying to figure out how he played so high
>with that normal mouth piece.
>
>Bob
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