The Duel - Vienne Jazz Festival

Jon Faddis and Tom Williams trading on a blues in Lyon, France (Carnegie Hall Jazz Band 1996)

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[BigAssTuba]

...and I thought the Duel was just in the video! It's in the comments TOO?! Come onnnn!!

You sound like a couple of first chair trumpet players showing off who has the biggest balls!

These are two different trumpet players with different styles which you may or may not feel. I happen to like both of them in different ways. I love how Tommy doesn't take the bait to go into the high register which is clearly one of Faddis' fortes! Tommy has a great ear for chord structure though! Love 'em both!

[bixntram]

Didn't know it was a promo site, but in any case I didn't say he couldn't play; that's your stuff. I had a hunch you couldn't manage a response without getting all tweaked out again.  Not good for your blood pressure, you know. You could use a little shed time yourself on civil discourse. I'm done.

[intrepidpooch]

@bixntram You set yourself up for whatever you got because what you said was insulting. You went onto the YouTube video that Mr. Williams uses as a promotional link from his personal website and started talking all this mess about how you weren't feeling what he's playing on here. Don't watch the damn video then! Didn't your Mama ever tell you that If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all? If you don't like someone's music, keep it to yourself!!!!

[intrepidpooch]

Usually when you say you don't know about or weren't feeling a cat, you're saying that your personal evaluation is that he can't play. Tom playing on this video, as well as in general, is a beautiful synthesis of KD, Freddie, Woody, Miles, Clifford, and all the canon of jazz trumpet while still putting his own personal stamp on everything he plays. He was playing some great ideas throughout this solo and this should be apparent to anyone even remotely familiar with the lineage of jazz trumpet.

[bixntram]

"dude,' your insulting nastiness was really uncalled for. "Sophomoric evaluation?" I evaluated nothing. Man, whatever happened to civil discourse? I said I wasn't feeling what he played here (listening late at night after a hard day). But instead of thinking up insults, Mr. Hip, just tell me what you liked about his solo and his ideas - without referencing yours truly, if you can manage. It's called common courtesy.

[intrepidpooch]

@bixntram Dude, why are you posting your lame criticism of a cat that played more on this video than you probably will your entire career? The time you spent posting your sophomoric evaluation of a living master of jazz trumpet on YouTube and TrumpetHerald would be better spent in the shed, don't you think? Tom, you sound beautiful as always on this video. I'm sure if this cat can do better we'll be seeing his video response ASAP...

[bixntram]

Amazing version of Bird's famous Kansas City solo by JF. I don't know about Tom Williams here. I just wasn't feeling anything he played.