[Dixielandjazz] Trombone players who can both read & fake

[Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis]

yeah, they all moved FROM St. Louis.
Larry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Barbone" <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 11:24 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Trombone players who can both read & fake


> "Larry Walton Entertainment - St. Louis"
>
>> The problem Ginny is the almost age old one - If they can fake they can't
>> read and vice versa.  People who can do both well are generally in demand
>> and somewhat rare.  Most musicians fall on one side of the fence or the
>> other.  Personally I feel a whole lot stronger on improv than I am in
>> reading and as I get older reading becomes even more problematical.
>>
>> Many of the young whiz kids are dynamite readers but take the paper away 
>> and
>> you might as well have twisted a key off their horns.  Most of their 
>> improv
>> comes right out of a book and just doesn't flow because they don't learn 
>> how
>> to make it flow.  Doing arrangements on the fly is also becoming a lost 
>> art.
>> I doubt seriously if they will find a group that can do both.
>>
>> As you know trying to find someone who can do both has been the problem 
>> in
>> my never ending quest for a trombone player.
>
> Dear Larry:
>
> You need to move East. :-) VBG
>
> We have scads of trombone players who can read and fake with the best of
> them. Played with one yesterday in beautiful downtown Warbasse NJ. . . Jim
> Fryer who is a monster reader, monster faker and monster singer.
>
> Others here include Glenn Dodson, Herb Gardner, Clint Sharmin, Herb 
> Roselle,
> Clarence Watkins, Brian Priebe, Pete Pepke, Pete Reichlin, Jim Parker, 
> Dave
> Sager, and a bunch of others who if they read this, will please forgive me
> for leaving them out. (Not to mention Rick Knittel who lives in the 
> boonies
> of Maine, "outside" the NY-Philly-Wash D.C. area)
>
> Experienced jazz improvisers all, any one of them could cut a cruise ship
> gig without breaking a sweat. Why don't they? Because for them, cruises 
> have
> very little to offer in the way of either psychic or monetary benefits.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
>
>
>
>
>
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