Yeah, I too bought the Ash Font, but have rarely used it. I do use the
jazz font, but basically only to use the articulations in it, as it does
have scoops and what not. I also bought the swing font
(www.jazzfont.com), from the author of the Jazz Font. Though, I have
found that I don't care for the look of it anymore.
If Bill could come up with articulations, then I might buy his
Productivity product. Looking at the examples, he has just about
everything else one would want in his library except for articulations
and jazz type things........
And on the Bill Rowen thing, I'm sure if you gave examples of how he
wrote things, someone around here probably has the know how to make a
font out of it.............
Chuck Israels wrote:
Hi Bill et al,
Perhaps Chris, Darcy, Greg Hamilton, and some others can help to come
up with a set of a few jazz articulations that most of us need. I use
few of them; a fall-off, a scoop up to pitch, and one that indicates a
drop and rise in pitch. Something for a brass shake would also be
useful to many. That's all I'd need, but there are undoubtedly others
who have different requirements. I am using shapes from the Jazz Font
articulations for these at the moment, and it is true that they seem
overly thick and bold for the rest of the Maestro Font that I am
using, but I can live with them. If you (Bill) can improve on them -
with advice from thoughtful people here, I'm sure many would
appreciate it.
I don't use the Jazz font - with the exception of those articulations,
but many do. I am sympathetic to the desire to achieve a look that is
more informal, perhaps more spontaneous looking than Maestro and
Engraver, but I have yet to find a "handwritten" style font that I
like. (I looked at the Ash Font and even bought a copy. I prefer it
to Jazz, but not enough to use it regularly.) There is something
about high quality hand copying that I love, and I got used to
beautiful work from Bill Rowen, who did most of the copying for the
National Jazz Ensemble, and from whom I learned a great deal about
music preparation. I don't think we'd have fired a good copyist whose
style looked like the Jazz Font, but we'd surely have continued to
look for the kind of elegant work that Bill Rowen produced for us.
Chuck
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