[Dixielandjazz] High notes in OKOM

[Bill Biffle]

If you mean F or G above high C for Pops, then that's about right.  He
played high, but not Maynard high.  Lot's of high Cs and Ds.  Mostly,
though, he was about playing the right notes, not the high notes.

I read somewhere that, according to his wife, even after he was the most
famous vocalist in the world, he still wanted to be the best trumpet player
in the room.

Reminds me of the old joke, How does one trumpet player greet another?  "Hi,
I'm better than you."

Miles didn't play high.  Pops didn't play high.  You don't play high.  I
don't play high.  Must be something to it.

Bill Biffle

(Come to think of it, I've tried playing while high and it didn't work out
so well.)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Romans" <cellblk7 at comcast.net>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 10:40 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] High notes in OKOM


> I'm wondering what the consensus of opinion is about cornet/trumpet
players
> using the extreme high notes ("screamers") in OKOM...I wish  that "I" had
> chops like that, buy only so fatigue would never set in.
> What was the highest note Bix ever played/recorded? Armstrong's, I think,
> was about high F or G...but did he ever go any higher? In the swing era, I
> know the range was going higher and higher...
> Just curious. According to Tommy Loy, Doc Severinson said he made 95% of
his
> money under high C...
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