[Dixielandjazz] High notes in OKOM

[Mike Durham]

I can play high if I want (for short periods) but believe the high stuff 
should be reserved for occasional use only - that way it has dramatic 
effect, whereas used all the time it smacks of exhibitionism and technique 
for its own sake. As Muggsy said to a bandleader pestering him for lots of 
high notes: "Aw, get yorself a piccolo player!"

Mike D.


>From: "Patrick Cooke" <patcooke at cox.net>
>To: "Ron L'Herault" <lherault at bu.edu>,<Dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] High notes in OKOM
>Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 15:09:15 -0600
>
>     I mainly play bass now, but up until about the fifties I played
>trombone.  I never had much of a lip that I could depend on, but if I could
>have hit those screaming high notes, you can bet I would have done it
>whenever I could work it in.
>     Occasionally....make that rarely...I would magically have a lip that
>could get into the upper registers, and it was GREAT!  I tried to figure 
>out
>what I was doing differently, but no matter what, the next day the magic
>chops had fled, and I was back to Bb (one octave above the staff) and 
>below.
>     I won't put the screamers down...I think it's exciting.  And I believe
>anybody who could......would.....proudly!
>    Showing off??? You Bet!!  I just wish I could...and so do the rest of
>you!
>     Pat Cooke
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ron L'Herault" <lherault at bu.edu>
>To: <Dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 11:50 AM
>Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] High notes in OKOM
>
>
> > Is the "Screamer" saying something or just babbling in a high pitched
> > (and maybe loud) voice?
> >
> > Ron L
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
> > [mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of Bob Romans
> > Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 12:40 AM
> > To: DJML
> > 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...
> > Bob Romans
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