Actually, in Nestico's scores, the vast majority of the quarter notes
are marked with an articulation --- especially the ones that are to be
played short.
He doesn't mark quarter notes under a slur because in that case it's
clear they are to be played long. He also doesn't mark long offbeat
quarter-notes with a tenuto -- he assumes they will be played long (in
other words, exactly the *opposite* of David Berger's practice).
This is an excellent illustration of why I mark them all.
- Darcy
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On 15 Jul 2005, at 1:30 PM, John Howell wrote:
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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