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Re: Vibrato

Hmmmm! Did we grow up listening to the same players.
Well said on all points Mark ---- excluding the McCann comments 'cos I have no
opinion on that point. ( Yes Ron, No opinion. LOL - <8~} )
Norm

brassman wrote:

> Cameron.....Uninspired is a great way to describe not only Alan Morrison's
> playing (and I was always a Grimethorpe fan) but many others.  Playing with
> inspiration seems to be a gift now matter if you are playing jazz,
> orchestral or brass band or whatever.  A very true artist inspires... how
> many are there?  You can be great at either trumpet or cornet but how many
> really inspire.  Timofey Dokschutzer comes to mind first.  Clark Terry,
> Bobby Hackett, Derek Garside, Jack Sheldon, Adolph (Bud) Herseth, Chet
> Baker, Rafael Mendez, Conrad Gozzo, Philip Smith.  If you (the list) don't
> know who these great artists are, then you have serious gaps in your
> musical taste and knowlege. The list of uninspired, but great trumpet and
> cornet players, is much too long to post here.
>
> To further comment on your point about being able to play one instrument
> better than the other or differing styles,  Wynton Marsalis is a wonderful
> classical trumpet/piccolo/cornet player (purely as a soloist) but as a jazz
> trumpet player he is only playing rehashed material and is very uninspiring
> for the most part.  As great a classical soloist as he is, he could never
> play 1st trumpet in an orchestra by his own admission.
> Phil Smith who is a superb (if not the best) 1st trumpet player in an
> orcherstra (NY Phil.) is less inspiring on cornet and he will be the first
> to say that he can't play a melody like his dad, Derek Smith who is now
> becoming a faint memory to most.
> I have worked with all three so I know first hand.
>
> A word about Philip McCann.  I agree with Jeremy Wise and so many others.
> I find his vibrato to be distasteful and unmusical even within a vibrato
> infested brass band
> environment.  He has a puny sound and no dynamic range.  From what I
> understand from other's who have sat next to him, he brings very little to
> the "table" and is difficult to work with.  Not my idea of a Principal
> cornet. When I met him, I found him to be aloof and full of himself. Having
> said that,  he is accurate and always there on solo passages...and that's
> what they want in contests isn't it?  But don't get that confused with
> music.  Sorry to offend you old guard brass band enthusiasts but get your
> head out of the sand and "listen."

--
Norm.
Music is my first love, after Jan and the billies.


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