Horns - Hamilton Quote

[peter c]

Great quote from Jeff:

"I left Indiana to study with John Von
Ohlen in Indianapolis. He showed me how
to treat a big band. A lot of the time
he would put lead trumpet parts in front
of me, then put the tape on of whatever
band it was and I'd play along to it not
knowing what was going on except for the
lead trumpet."

"His principle was, don't think like a
drummer filling for the band, think how
one of the horn players would phrase it.
Von Ohlen's stroke is the one I applied
to my playing, which is bringing the
stick back and dropping it on the cymbal
getting three bounces. You're getting a
natural accent on two-a-three, four-a-one, getting two and four where you snap your
fingers anyway if you listen to jazz."

These days, this is exactly what I am
trying to apply but in Latin. It's about
the horns and the intermediate support
of the melody.

As for big-band, in the same bio-note,
I noticed that Jeff acknowledged another
hero of mine, Sonny Payne, a big-band
drummer's drummer and apparently, a show-
man as well. It was all about the horns.

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<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ October 30, 2003 09:47 AM: Message edited by: peter c ]</font>

[FuseU1]

Great quote...JH is a real bad-a**...he, amongst many others [such as Bill Stewart; & the obvious, like Elvin AWA, say, Erskine] have been my fave "straight-ahead-meets contempo/post-mod jazz drummers" for awile now [see my & RW's posts on the topic "Snare choices for softer gigs"]....

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ October 30, 2003 01:44 PM: Message edited by: FuseU1 ]</font>