[Dixielandjazz] Roger Bobo Masterclass

[Gary Kiser]

Hi All,

This post is NOT jazz related so hardliners delete now.

I present links to a documentary of Roger Bobo around his tuba 
masterclasses in Italy.  This ran on French TV a few years back.  I just 
found it on YouTube.  Perhaps I've already sent this.

Roger Bobo was the principal tuba for the LA Phil for many years.  He 
had his fingers in a lot of stuff in the LA area.  I interviewed him 
once for his concerts in Topanga Canyon series.  He then moved to Italy 
and taught tuba.  There is some very fine music played in the videos, 
but orchestral in nature.  There are some scenes of rehearsals and warm 
up exercises.

I post this for the pedagogy.  I love the way he teaches.  Here are a 
couple of highlights :

- After a student plays a passage perfectly, he explains that it was so 
perfect that it didn't sound good.  He tells the student to convince the 
listener that he loves her.  He then replays the passage and it is once 
again perfect, but this time it rocks.

- He compares getting students to sing their parts in Italy and in the US.

- My favorite is "... if a violin player starts trying to do everything 
exactly the way that Itzhak Perlman does it, then the best they could 
hope for is to become a real good shadow of Itzhak Perlman."  This 
statement perhaps will start a thread.  I know two musicians -- trumpet 
and sax -- that are soooo into playing a certain way that I feel they 
don't play as well as they could if they just played themselves.  The 
sax playing is into Bechet 1933-1939 and the trumpet is a Red Allen 
copy.  They do sound a lot like Bechet and Allen, but would they sound 
better if they didn't try to play like their heroes?

Warning, there are scenes of Maestro Bobo in a bathing suit.

Enjoy, Gary


Roger Bobo - Masterclass of Tuba Playing

part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUwCsREatbA (many good brass 
warm up exercises)

part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPfsmikOW0A

part 3 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSRCbspZfw4

part 4 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td4tBtpIZHk

part 5 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTECU4kLCJA


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