[Dixielandjazz] Dogfight!!!

[John McClernan]

Jim,
Check your facts. Only the first of the quotes below which you attribute to me is actually mine. The other two are someone else's statements, not mine. I'm supporting you, not the contrary. I have a feeling that my background is quite similar to yours, having played "B&B's Favorite", "S&S Forever" and many other marches on tuba countless times.
Cheers,
John

 
On Dec 28, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Jim O'Briant wrote:

John McClernan wrote:

> A band that is marching would not have a reason to use the 
> term "dogfight" in performance. They would use it in rehearsal 
> only. No drum major ever yelled out "dogfight" while his band 
> was playing and marching.  Concert band conductors would 
> use it for rehearsal purposes.  It's like saying, "take it from 
> letter C".


In another message, John McClernan wrote:

> But it's not the Out Chorus... altho it could be.   

And in another message he wrote:

> The dogfight chorus in a trad jazz band comes before the out chorus, 
> unless it IS the out chorus. If you listen, you can hear it after the
front 
> line takes choruses.