[Dixielandjazz] Trumpet Player Cool Styles

[Trumpetom at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/19/2011 3:20:13 A.M. , ricksax at comcast.net  writes:

This is  problematic, because you can't hire them for an early jazz job   
because, 1) they can't play it convincingly, and 2) they generally   
disdain it.

Hard to agree with those statements, but I think all of have fun  ragging 
on other musicians. There were never a lot of great rising star  players of 
any instrument at a given time in any region. The rest just played in  
sections, or they just read notes in front of them. A degree in music won't  
always guarantee someone is the player someone else expects.
 
The cruel false perceptions are: temperamental piano players  with poor 
meter, unreliable bass players, sax players who don't listen to the  rest of 
the band or they play solos with too many notes, sloppy  trombone players, 
banjo/guitar players playing chords but can't read notes,  obnoxious cocky 
first trumpet players (who like loud high blowing contests),  drummers who are 
either too loud or can't keep good time, or can't read (or all  three), 
singers without their own charts or don't know what key any tune should  be for 
them, leaders who have no concept of what tempos are suitable for  dancing. 
Have I left anybody out?
 
Tom Loeb
_www.hotsytotsyboys.com_ (http://www.hotsytotsyboys.com)