What are you listening to?

[Kehaulani]

Dr. Go, I can't read it. Who did the arrangement?

[GeorgeB]

@kehaulani
Hi, kehaulani, If you view the video in full screen you can see the name of the arranger: Paul Murtha at the very top of the screen.

[Kehaulani]

Yes. Like I said, I can't read it. Thanks for the info.

[Mike Ansberry]

I received a recording of Lou Tabackin in Paris with only a bass and drums backing him. Wow!

[barliman2001]

Just happened onto this clip... Maurice André with a very different repertoire!

[GeorgeB]

@barliman2001

Definitely different. You know, this is the first time I ever heard him swing. And man, he can do it.

[Mike Ansberry]

I think Maurice Andre is a robot. I saw him years ago. He played an incredibly strenuous program, then came back out for encore after encore. The man is a machine. Seems like he never tires.

[barliman2001]

@mike-ansberry said in What are you listening to?:

I think Maurice Andre is a robot. I saw him years ago. He played an incredibly strenuous program, then came back out for encore after encore. The man is a machine. Seems like he never tires.

By this time, he's a dead robot. RIP.

[Kehaulani]

And his playing. Robotic, too?

[barliman2001]

I don't think his playing in this rather well-hidden French TV programme is robotic...

From 23:01 onwards, he is playing the G picc he left to me at his passing...

[stumac]

@barliman2001 Curious about the 4th valve loop, my Selmer G the 4th valve only drops a tone to F.

Regards, Stuart.

[barliman2001]

@stumac The original version had two different slides for #4, one as described by you, the other one with the big loop. Mine has both slides.

[ROWUK]

@kehaulani I agree that his "jazz" was often not very "state of the art". I would also maintain that he did not do his reputation justice by playing publicly after "reaching his prime".
Still, he influenced more trumpeters (positively) probably than any other trumpeter ever.

In spite of stylistic issues, there is always something important that we can learn by listening to his recordings. I continue to benefit with every listen!

[Kehaulani]

The man was a flawless technician, I just felt something was missing in nuance.

[Dr GO]

@rowuk said in What are you listening to?:

@kehaulani I agree that his "jazz" was often not very "state of the art". I would also maintain that he did not do his reputation justice by playing publicly after "reaching his prime".
Still, he influenced more trumpeters (positively) probably than any other trumpeter ever.

In spite of stylistic issues, there is always something important that we can learn by listening to his recordings. I continue to benefit with every listen!

My response is this is not true jazz in it's "classic form". Jazz takes the head and improvises creatively over the changes. In this clip the performer is reading the entire score. This does not reflect the true essence of jazz but shows an accomplished classical musician playing of a written chart filled with classical riffs. Glad Maurice Andre stayed with classical and left the real hard work of jazz playing to the true jazz professionals playing from the soul, and not the ink.

[barliman2001]

@dr-go Matter of fact is that he started out in wind bands (in a coal miner's band, on cornet) and only later switched to classical because that is where the money was in his time.

[Mike Ansberry]

When I said robotic I wasn't meaning a lack of emotion. I meant he never got tired and he never missed. It was a very long and extremely difficult performance.

[barliman2001]

@mike-ansberry There were instances when even he missed... I attended a concert in the late 1980s when he had just been contracted by Scherzer to use their rotary picc... at a time when the Scherzer picc did not have the #4 valve pad to the left thumb... Even though he was still at the height of his playing, it was a concert that did not do him justice. He very soon abandoned the Scherzer again.

[J. Jericho]

I heard this in my head enough times lately to revisit it on YT. I love the concert band version because it features the trumpet so nicely. And it brings back warm memories of when I first played/heard it so long ago....

[J. Jericho]

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