>COMMENT: Not sure I agree completely. Actually the violin imitates >the classical voice. All violin effects (tremelo, trills, etc.) were >copied from the singers of that perios. The trumpet imitates the >singing of the blues singer in traditional jazz. The background of >Jazz is the sung blues, among other forms of sung black music, and >all of the trumpets effects (trill, grow, slide, wa-wa mute, etc) are >copies of the singing style of the blues singer. Even in rock, the >stringed instruments needed to be attached to forms of amplification >before they were capable of imitating the freedom exhibited by the >voice singing the rhythm and blues style which is the foundation of >rock and roll and, eventually, rock
The human voice did come first, I agree. But the human voice can imitate, whereas the instruments are set to sound a certain way. Jazz singers do emulate the sound and timbre of the trumpet. The trumpet can only sound the way it does. I agree that you can play it a certain way- but if you listen to ella fitzgerald, you can hear her trumpet-scat lines- same with louie armstrong, who was a trumpet player himself I guess its a bit of a chicken or the egg argument, as these instrument could have also become popular because of their similiarity to the human voice.
Mirko I guess
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