If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.
I wish I could score everything for horns.
Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!
My main horn is a hybrid of a flugelhorn a coronet and a trumpet, but that's really because, for me, each instrument to me had a different voice, and I liked them all, but I didn't like any one of them singularly.
I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.
I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.
When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
I've always been a good ensemble player.
I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.