Captaindave
Well-Known Member
Just as a follow up on my post above...
Anyone who can play the trumpet lines in Zorba the Greek cleanly and with the precision that you hear on the album is a very good trumpet player. Very good control of the horn and good ability to execute technical material - double tonguing on moving sixteenth note runs, etc.
So, if we agree that Herb played that, I can tell you for certain that he could have played anything else on any TJB recording with ease, especially the little, easy by comparison solos on some of the other songs...
Anyone who can play the trumpet lines in Zorba the Greek cleanly and with the precision that you hear on the album is a very good trumpet player. Very good control of the horn and good ability to execute technical material - double tonguing on moving sixteenth note runs, etc.
So, if we agree that Herb played that, I can tell you for certain that he could have played anything else on any TJB recording with ease, especially the little, easy by comparison solos on some of the other songs...