At 7:41 AM -0400 8/10/08, dhbailey wrote:
Sure, most of the top-tier jazz trombone players may not use F-attachments when on jazz gigs (unless they're on 4th bone parts) but I'm fairly positive that all of them would own and feel comfortable playing F-attachment horns for those gigs when they're required to have that extended range, and they could have been sampled on those instruments. Or Garritan could have done some programming magic and figured out how to stretch the range. Soundfonts can do it.
We're a small Music Department with no more than around 140 majors, but our studio teachers are first rate. We don't presently have a specific jazz major (although we did, and it was becoming very popular for both instrumentalists and vocalists before the first of several drastic budget cuts from the state), and we don't have specific jazz studio teachers (except for trumpet, since a dual-threat teacher was specifically advertised for).
That said, however, I can GUARANTEE that any and every serious trombone major has an F-attachment instrument and is taught how to use it. And that includes in our two big bands. As I commented earlier, I'm dealing with a different generation than Darcy is, but this is the generation that's going to take over in due course.
Considering the use of jazz bass trombone itself, going back to George Roberts and Kenton, I would say that yes, Garitan dropped the ball on this, or at least acted on questionable advice that may not survive the generation gap.
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