![]() I'm guessing he was able to "Bob McChesney" a lot of articulations between those two positions. ![]() For fear of digressing too much, I noticed he sometimes rapidly played a LOT more notes between 1st & 3rd position than are actually on the horn. But in that regard, I think he "cheated" (tongue in cheek). That's pretty much what they did back then and he obviously made it work splendidly!Īnyway, I think he epitomized the concept that a "jazz" trombone is whatever size you are playing at the moment when you are playing jazz! And he clearly was able to demonstrate nimbleness that others might say is lacking in a larger horn. ![]() Good info! It's always difficult for me to guess the size of a mpc from a visual, but it isn't hard for me to accept that he played on a small one. He also switched to a smaller bore Yamaha in the 70s and 80s, and some other horn I’m not familiar with that you can see with him in videos. I own an Opera and while it’s an amazing horn to play, it can be a real challenge to play in a section or other settings where blend (not to mention intonation) is important. ![]() Curtis Fuller also used a small mouthpiece - a King 28 I believe, even with the huge Opera - which helped him sound more like he was playing a small horn than a big one. ![]()
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