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Uploaded by on Feb 7, 2010

THE RHYTHM ACES: Jabbo Smith, t, v / Omer Simeon, cl / Cassino Simpson, another, p / Ikey Robinson, bj / Hayes Alvis, bb.
Chicago, February 22, 1929.
(Data source: Mr. Brian Rust's Jazz Discography)

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  • Jabbo sounds like Louis at 2:41. Thanks so much for the nice tiger.

  • Your comment is very pertinent, as usual. Jabbo, Red Allen and many other tp/cnt players of the era developed a style similar to Armstrong ,  everyone showing his personal disposition. Jabbo was really a virtuoso; it seems that he didn't suffer the high notes llike Satchmo. He probably used the "no pressure" system, somehow advancing the next generation of trumpet players.

  • I read somewhere that Jabbo's record company wanted to build him up as an opponent for Louis. Terry Teachout write in his new Armstrong-biography, Jabbo had no chance against the powerful high notes from Louis on a harlem stage contest where the two men met another to measure the forces.

  • I saw Satch when he was about 58: his lips often bleeded during the concert. I saw Jabbo when he was about 75: no lip problems. A "no pressure" tecnique allows over high notes; if you press, everything could be more difficult but also more powerful. It seems that intermediate systems are existing. I'm not a trumpet player, only such a musician can confirm or deny. Sometimes theory is not practice but if you are not Armstrong, don't press too much your mouthpiece, please..! ;o)

  • Very nice! 5**** for Sleepy, too!

    All the best!

  • I'm glad you like it!

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  • I will follow your suggestion very well... ;-o)

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