Posted by MG on June 05, 2003 at 00:34:39:
In Reply to: jazzers - re: Aebersold posted by B.G. on June 04, 2003 at 01:34:24:
"And the biggest thing is listen, and don't listen to a lot of tuba players to learn. I might get in trouble for saying that, but there are not a lot of really good jazz tuba players out there. Other instruments have an abundant amount of good
players that improvise very well, and the solos are easy to hear ad duplicate in your playing."
Sadly, this is good advice. For bop and post-bop jazz, don't expect to find many tuba players who play like Michael Brecker. As far as the Aebersold stuff goes, I would recommend the tune-oriented volumes over the theory-oriented ones. It's tough to find people to play with when you're a "non-standard" instrument, and I owe a helluva lot to the Aebersold books for this reason. Do make a concerted effort to play with real people though.