[Dixielandjazz] Too Loud

[TCASHWIGG at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/21/03 8:17:38 AM Pacific Standard Time, Custode writes:

> It is up to the instrumentalist to use amplification correctly.  A true 
> musician, one who plays musically as well as technically, will use a microphone 
> to enhance his/her performance.  It took me years to learn and understand 
> this.  But if I can do it successfully, others can as well.  
> 
> Lewis D. Custode, Jr., CLU, ChFC
> trumpet/leader
> Bourbon Street Brass
> Buffalo, NY
> 

Absolutely, Lewis

It is indeed up to the individual Trumpet player, and the ones I was speaking 
of know who they are, certainly not all Trumpet players do that, just trying 
to poke a bit of fun at the Trumpet players to divert attention away from the 
banjo players.  :)

There is a time and a place for everything, and sometimes the place and the 
time for a Trumpet Solo is in front of a microphone indeed if the player uses 
it properly and not just for super loud volume.

I still like playing outdoors where the guys can play as loud as they want to 
and make the cows in the next county churn butter. :)


Can't complain too much about my horn players playing too loud in front of 
four drummers, it do get a bit loud and funky most of the time, We ain't no 
average Dixieland Band, and don't try to be.  We are shooting to play Traditional 
Jazz on the next Rolling Stones Tour, where we can reach a whole new audience 
and convert some of them to Jazz.  Hello Mick are you listening.   
Humm maybe Mick Jagger would like to sing the Great Marches of John Phillip 
Sousa to top Rod Stewart's Great American Song Book.  Naw Keith Richards would 
want the Bass too loud, :)

Cheers.

Tom Wiggins