Voor degenen die niet op TH actief zijn: een paar hele leuke vragen en antwoorden aan/van Chris Botti,
http://video.newsweek.com/#?t=19107373001&l=10174408001
En bij een "horns"topic (Looking for a new horn) liep een discussie over de Botti-sound die kort samengevat vooral zou berusten op een out-of-tune trompet, hier een fantastisch (en volgens mij zeer deskundig) commentaar:
shofarguy writes:
<<<"Secondly, Botti's Commitee is out of tune with itself. You can hear that on some of the cuts on his CD's. The principle sound will be flat compared to the resound. It gives his Committee that mournful, bluesy feel. The double-tone coming out of the horn tends to kill off high harmonics.
So, if you really want a sound like you hear on his recordings, try a Kanstul Chicago 1025 flugel. It is almost trumpet like, if you want it to be.">>>>
huh?
Come on.... that is far fetched.
Chris botti does not sound like a flugel. That is a trumpet sound. If you listen to just about any classical player play charlier etudes they all get that same sound. The sound comes form having a well trained embouchure that is well centered, and playing this is not very loud. That coupled with a normal classical mouthpiece like a 1 1/2 C and lots of productive tone study. It would not make a whole lot of difference what horn he played. Just listen to Chet baker on "candy" and "Mr. B" and compare that to the "last great concert" Those horns are drastically different, but the sound is the same. Flugel-ish, but really it's just a very good quiet trumpet sound with a deep mouthpiece but not a Deep V shaped mouthpiece. Just a normal bach mouthpiece played extremely well and very musical, with great breath control.
Chris Botti and Chet are both under rated many trumpet players for some reason.
Doug M
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