[Dixielandjazz]The Release

[Patrick Cooke]

>Anyone else familiar with the term?

  It seems the New Yorkers mainly use the term 'release'.
   I heard it a lot when I was playing in Miami Beach.
    Pat Cooke

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Gunter" <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
To: <dingle at baldwin-net.com>; <Dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:52 AM
Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] Another veiw from the BRIDGE


> Brother Don and all,
>
> You observed:
>
> >There is also another term for the bridge that older players (which
> >definitely includes this fella) use, though I rarely hear it used lately.
> >The bridge of a tune is also called the "Release."
>
> I have heard the term used before on several occasions. I didn't  know
> exactly what it meant but because of the context of the term I assumed
that
> it referred to the last eight and not the bridge.
>
> I have two (2) musical dictionaries on my desk but neither contain the
term
> "release" so that's no help! I don't doubt Fra Don so I will accept his
> definition as gospel.
>
> Anyone else familiar with the term?
>
> Respectfully requested,
>
> Bill "Release Me" Gunter
> jazzboard at hotmail.com
>
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