Posts made by Kehaulani

So, how does any of that show that the trumpet players on the Leningrad recording played new, at the time, substandard horns as opposed to other more functional horns that they had played, and assumably kept, prior to WWII?

Let's see. You don't play your horn for a year and now ~IT~ doesn't play as well as it used to. What am I missing?

Is there a source for their being "truly awful" or is that conjecture?

The thread title is a little misleading to me. "Wynton Marsalis to help . . '. This is not a magnanimous gift. It's a gig.

Back to instruments for a moment. It's been said that USSR instruments were not good in the post-WWII era. That may be correct, But the performers are likely playing on the same instruments they'd been playing on all along - in the pre-WWII era.

Glad you could drop in, flugelgirl.

@seth-of-lagos

If I'm not mistaking, Allied Supply is loaded with options. They are not retail, though, so you have to go through a music store.

I learned to sit up straight, hold my right hand like it's got a tennis ball in it, and breathe like you're coughing.

For those who want to spend time and brain cells studying the minutiae, go for it. 'I'll just hit the shed with time off for Judge Judy.

@newell-post said in Valve Springs:

Does anyone know if Bach sells slightly stiffer than normal valve springs? I can find standard and "light" replacement valve springs. But I would like springs that are just a little bit stiffer, faster, and less "mushy." I know I can try to stretch the standard ones slightly, but I would like springs that come from the factory just a little more "aggressive." Thanks.

Hey, after all, what's an institution of higher learning for?

TH and TB. The land of unrequested answers.

Damn. Wynton and the entire JLC Band imported? Wonder what that cost?

"By the late 1890s, (Bolden) led the most successful band in New Orleans and quickly became known as King Bolden, the leading figure of the rising New Orleans-style ragtime music that would later be known as jazz.

Bolden’s popularity remained unchallenged in New Orleans right up to the middle of the first decade of the 20th century."
Jazz Times

Bolden represented the transition from Ragtime to Jazz.

If anyone's really interested in the origins of Jazz, read
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development
by Gunther Schuller

I can't Find anything preceding 1900. Its precursors were Ragtime and the Blues, with a touch of Western Marching Band.

Good Lord, Jazz is an aural art, more connected to the physicality and rhythms of a basketball court than to a scientific micro-analysis.

You listen, get the rhythm in your bones, and, in the words of Clark Terry, "Imitate, Assimilate, Innovate".