At 1:00 PM -0400 7/15/05, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Seems to me that you've got three possible scenarios here.
1. Writing for experienced jazz musicians who live in the style,
don't need that level of overcontrol, and might even be insulted by
it.
No. Even the best New York players *do* need that level of
"overcontrol," as you say, because there is *absolutely no agreement
amongst jazz musicians about how to interpret unmarked quarter
notes.* Some players play all unmarked eighths short, some play
them long, some play them somewhere in between, and if you don't
mark them *all*, you will have to waste rehearsal time telling
everyone which it is. And even then, people will *still* slip back
into their default habits from time to time.
OK, I'll have to take your word that that's the situation. I'm
reasonably sure that when Sammy Nestico was arranging for the USAF
Airmen of Note he wouldn't have gone into that kind of detail,
because he knew the guys and how they played, but I may be wrong. Of
course that was a band that played together every day, not a pickup
band.
John
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