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No Swing?

To: "'brass-band'" <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: No Swing?
From: andrew wooler <100645.1446@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 12:04:43 -0500
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Reply-to: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Many of the postings on this subject centre around the alleged inability of
uk bands (and others) to "swing".
I believe we may be barking up the wrong tree here and should also be
concentrating on the quality of the arrangement itself - when you get an
arranger with the talent of Bill Geldard for example, you'd have a problem
NOT swinging! IMO, we have too many badly scored transcriptions which will
never swing no matter what you do with them - you only have to look at the
kit parts to see the arranger hasn't got a clue! The spirit of Edrich
Siebert seems to live on even today! 
Of course, if your players don't a jazz quaver from a cheese flavoured one,
they'll not swing either!

Andy Wooler
Resident Conductor, Uckfield Concert Brass
Public Relations Officer, SCABA
awooler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx  (01273)882539


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