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Part I: All That Jazz: A Tour of the Basics
Getting a fuller sound with the flugelhorn
In recent decades the flugelhorn — a slightly
larger variation of a trumpet with a fuller,
warmer tone — has been showcased by Art
Farmer, Freddie Hubbard, and Clark Terry. The
flugelhorn is well suited for ballads.
� Miles Davis used a flugelhorn for the minimalist
cool sound on his 1957 album Miles
Ahead.
� Trumpeter and bandleader Shorty Rogers
played flugelhorn in 1950s cool jazz.
The trumpet is better suited to its lead role in modern jazz. As Armstrong
switched from cornet to trumpet, the trumpet’s powerful sound fit his pioneering
solos and distinct tone. Subsequent trumpeters — Chet Baker,
Clifford Brown, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie — exploited the trumpet’s
range of sounds, from loud and piercing to soft, muted, and whispery.
Sliding sounds: Trombones
� Freddie Hubbard’s big, sweet sound flugelhorn
became a centerpiece of romantic ’70s
soul-jazz.
� South-African trumpeter Hugh Masekela
uses flugelhorn on albums such as Almost
Like Being in Jazz that combine African
rhythms and textures with contemporary
American jazz.
� Tom Harrell, a top trumpeter in the midst of
his career, uses trumpets and flugelhorns,
depending on the song.
Early jazz trombonists were called tailgaters because they hung their slides
out from the backs of horse-drawn wagons that carried jazz bands through
the streets of New Orleans.
Certain elements characterize the playing of the early New Orleans tailgaters.
These sounds really defined the role that trombone was to play and continues
to play in the jazz ensemble. In New Orleans, trombones played the bass
parts later performed by bass guitarists. In big bands, trombones helped
anchor the bottom beat, and they harmonized with trumpets and saxophones
in brass sections. Trombones can also do some of the things a human
voice can do.
Here are some of the things to listen for when you listen to jazz trombone:
� Glissando: Also called a smooth slide because the instrument slides
through a string of notes that sounds, at times, like an elephant braying.
This technique is what most people recognize as “that trombone
sound.” (The term is Italian, as are many musical terms — purists may
refer to more than one glissando as glissandi.)