@Dr-GO
Ok Dr that is fair comment.
My personal expectation when listening to an ensemble playing jazz is that the instrument I am supposed to listen to is at the forefront dynamically and the other instruments are supporting in the background during the solo whether that solo performer is on piano sax trumpet bass or percussion.
I can accept that this is a different concept and the trumpet repeated phrases is acting like a drone to the drummers melody.
On the other hand with a scottish piper for example where we have melody and drones together, the melody played on the chanter is supposed to be louder and easier to hear than the drones that support the chanter melody or the melody is drowned out and difficult to hear.
I know what drives audiences to going wild and there are several things that do and one of the principle causes of audiences going wild is a performer playing very high notes sustained for a very long time often with no musicianship whatsoever.
99 times out of 100 just by playing either fast or loud or both will set them off, no skill is necessary.
I think what caused the audience reaction in the clip of trombone shorty was the playing of notes sustained for a very long time.
My feeling is that the audience was responding to the unbroken repetition of the trumpet phrases and not to the drummers performance when they went wild in that clip. I think they would have gone just as wild if the drummer was not playing at all.
As for me, when I said "audiences have gone wild over my performances" and you said in response "No they don't. They go wild over the ensemble supporting the performance around you". That would have been a bit difficult as there was no ensemble around me at all, I was performing a solo as the only performer.
I have upon occasion had audiences going wild over my playing high and my playing long sustained notes, and I am familiar with how the audience reacts when hearing high and long sustained playing, and this audience reacted in exactly that way. I am convinced therefore that their reaction was solely to the trumpet.
The giveaway is that the audience went wild at 2:44 immediately the trumpet ended, the band played on, so the audience went wild in response to the trumpet and nothing else.
Of course I could be way off base here.
