[Dixielandjazz] FW: Cut - thankfully - to the bone.

[Jim Kashishian]

> Holding jazz trombonists up to a classical standard is a nonsensical 
> test.  The objectives are different and there is little chance that they
will utilize the same vocabulary.
> David Dustin

I have always considered it practically as different horns.  Classically
trained trombonists normally have even a different sound/tone.  

Holding one type of player above or below the other is also nonsensical,
particularly if you consider them to be as different horns altogether.

I remember my Dad changing his tune after his good friend...top trumpeter
with the Los Angeles Symphony....heard our first recording.  He said to my
Dad "I wish I could play like that".

Shock, I'm sure, to my Dad, who always said any of those "good players"
could do what we do!

:>

Jim

P.s.  My Dad heard me play Dixieland live once when I was 16.  Next time he
"heard" me live was when I was 64 yrs old & he was in a wheelchair, and he
couldn't figure out where the stage was or who was on it.      :<