Quickie...

Just a quick one today...

I was in a masterclass with Hakan Hardenberger, famous trumpet player (supposedly the greatest trumpet player on the planet), and he brought up a VERY interesting point; he said that we should all have our heroes on our own instrument, e.g. mine would be Urbie Green, but we mustn't just narrow it down, we should have a broad repertoire for listening, e.g. for me it would be Bill Watrous, Wycliffe Gordon, Joe Alessi, Brett Baker etc. I'd like to think most musicians do this already, except for 14 year old trumpet players who only listen to Maynard and turn out to be the most annoying trumpet players on the planet... but that's beside the point. The really interesting point he made was this; don't narrow down your listening to just your own instrument. Have your trombone heroes, your sax heroes, whatever your principal study is, BUT listen to other instruments, and have heroes in them. For me, this would definitely be Jaco Pastorius, but it could be anyone, Natalie Klein, Yo-Yo Ma, you name them.

So, in the spirit of diversity, I decided to listen to some Jaco :)

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and some more Jaco (but this time a differant track :) )

I'm hoping to post up a review of an album or 2 quite soon, an album which might have meant a lot to me or something along those lines! It won't be Jaco though, I won't just go mad on you... hopefully I'll talk about trombones at some point!

But alas, I ramble.

'til next time...

Thanks ~ The Jazzbone