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diz the wiz Regular Member
Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 56 Location: CANADA
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 5:11 pm Post subject: mendez and jazz greats |
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I just finish to listen my complete mendez summit collection,I'm a big jazz fan,and I ask myself,did Mendez (who I says is the greatest trumpet player technician ever)was aware of jazz greats like my idols,Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown,and if so, what were his thoughts about them,I think that all the jazz greats were aware of the great Mendez. _________________ Michel Dalcourt
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trpt.hick Rafael Méndez Forum Moderator
Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Posts: 2632
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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Mendez loved jazz and owned several jazz trumpet records. His main record collection was of opera singers. He loved opera!
His favorite trumpet/cornet player was George Swift from England. He owned six copies of the old 78 rpm glass disc of Swift performing SONIA. Wow! Now THAT guy could play!
Mendez played in the MGM orchestra for ten years..... the first few behind Manny Klein, and the last few as first trumpet. Manny could blow some good jazz, dixie, swing, et. al., but Mendez had trouble with the jazz solos for film tracks. Even though Mendez had his own jazz band in his younger days (Mendez and the All-Stars), sort of an early Harry James-style group, he was once quoted that he would happily give up all of his technique for eight bars of real jazz trumpet playing.
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bulos Heavyweight Member
Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 515 Location: Davie,Fl by way of Clifton, NJ
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:04 am Post subject: |
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Can't document this but I remember hearing more then once that Mendez and CLifford Brown practiced together on occasion. _________________ Marquis de Sade: "In art, one has to kill one's father." |
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