Unfortunately there do not seem to be any tracks available on youtube or other sites.Ī good listen is in order before making judgement, but below is my take on the side by side comparison. Luckily there are a few real world experiments out there to call on for evidence. You can only use another of Sam's descriptions of TD and say that it is "seamless"! I have been listening a lot recently to those early 1940s hits he had with Frank Sinatra - "The Essential Frank Sinatra with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra" - and TD's statement of the melodies is absolutely incredible. I was interested in what Sam had to say about the likelihood that it was TD who invented the legato tongue. did not think he was sloppy though and said that, in order to developed his approach to the articulation of fast Bebop phrasing, he listened a lot to Vic. For instance, Vic Dickenson's articulation is one of my very favourite sounds but others might think it is a bit sloppy. One might almost say that 'great' articulation is in the ear of the listener. There are probably other dimensions as well.
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For me, I am most impressed by the ability to play any given note with immediate and full resonant sound and without any hint of the percussive presence of too much tongue. The ability to play legato with beautiful sound throughout is another. The ability to play fast and varied articulations is one aspect.
Quote from: patrickosmith on Jun 02, 2016, 04:01AMThere are a few dimensions to this question. He didn't so much "articulate" as he used fantastic slide technique.including the mastery of extended positions right up past the 8th partial.equally fantastic flexibility (and the use of the tongue only when all else failed) to be able to play just about everything he could hear. Like Clark Terry.one of a kind technically. Then there's Frank Rosolino.beyond category, as Duke Ellington used to say. I leave out the doodle tongue masters because they need a mic to get works, but it's essentially electronic music. J.J.? He found a way to tongue.and coordinate that tonguing with the slide.that made him sound like Clifford Brown down an octave or so. Urbie? Where did his across the grain slurs end and his articulations begin? Damned if I know. Before Dorsey? The so-called "portamento" style.much more vocalistic. Teagarden was so good you didn't even know if he was articulating.ĭorsey pretty much invented.or so I have been told by people who were there at the time.the "legato" tongue which is now mainstream in the orchestral world. Johnson (and his acolytes.especially Curtis Fuller and Slide Hampton)
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