How to Play Early Jazz with a Plunger Mute
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2015
- Master trumpet player Jon-Erik Kellso guides you through how to set up your plunger mute, and how to approach using it in your playing, either alone or with a pixie mute!
Learn more at academy.jazz.org
Jon-Erik Kellso - Trumpet
Eric Suquet - Director
Bill Thomas - Director of Photography
Richard Emery - Production Assistant
Seton Hawkins - Producer
Recorded April 7, 2013
This is a fabulous plunger mute tutorial and also a great introduction to the pixie mute! I really appreciate the history lesson of how the great trumpeters played with these mutes! Thank you for sharing this!
This is that vintage sound I've been looking for on the cornet, but I didn't know it was called a mute. Thanks for the tips!
One very important plunger-mute guy who rarely gets mentioned is R.Q. Dickerson who played on the Early recordings of Cab Calloway and also The Missourians band in the 20s, before they became Cab's Orchestra. He's right up there with Bubber Miley and Cootie Williams. Listen to his work on the 1927 Andy Preer recording of "I Found a New Baby", the Misssourians' 1930 recording of "Prohibition Blues", Cab Calloway's 1930 recordings of "St. Louis Blues", "Is that Religion?", "Some of these Days", and of course, the classic 1931 original version of "Minnie the Moocher" to hear what I'm talking about :)
TheHeater90 Thanks, yes, he was great, and practically nobody remembers his name.
Great video, he looks so happy when he plays
Thanks for explaining the pixie/plunger technique. When I heard this sound in old recordings I always assumed people were using the harmon mute with the wow-wow plunger inserted. I usually use my harmon/wow-wow to get that tinny vintage'y sound, but the pixie plunger sounds a little fatter and seems to make sense now. Must ebay a pixie...
Thank you for sharing Jon...spot on playing and demonstration of those specific players and such a wonderful sound! I took alot away from this video. Thanks again Lincoln Center and Jon-Erik.
so glad you enjoyed it! You're welcome.
I was jazzing up one of the strains from Sousa's "National Emblem" march, heheh!
I always liked the way Tyree Glenn's trombone sounded with a plunger mute. He used a pixie mute with his plunger mute. I was able to play that same sound on my trumpet using a round Shedd's Country Crock 15 oz butter tub. I always experimented with various tubs and cups to get a different sound but I was happy when I emulated the exact sound of Tyree Glenn using a round Country Crock butter tub.
JazzFan76 cool! Good idea. There’s another video I did in this series where I demonstrate using other things in place of a plunger. Tyree was wonderful!
@@JonErikKellso yes he was. I enjoy his music with Louis Armstrong. I will look for it. Funny thing is I can't use a plunger or cup or tub if I play the trumpet because my arms are too short and don't reach so I use my cornet. 🎺 I should have said cornet in my original comment.
JazzFan76 cornet is a smart solution in that case
@@JonErikKellso lol...yeah. I'm a short person (4 foot 11) so my arms aren't very long.
something about this gives me grim fandango vibes. great jazz soundtrack, it really replicates that 30s-40s jazz sound
Very informative! Great work Jon-Erik Kellso!
I am a big fan of trumpet mutes players because Bubber Miley! He was a special part of Duke Ellington's Orchestra may he rest peace
Gosh, third video and just on the brink of hitting subscribe button. You're great, masters!
Spectacular demo! Thanks for this!
Thanks, this is great! I just got a Jabbo CD from my teacher, I love it!
Abriel Ferreira Glad you like it! You can learn more about the lead player's role here: th-cam.com/video/azH4lfTiKX4/w-d-xo.html
Cool! Jabbo is a lot of fun to listen to. Another favorite cornet player of mine is Rex Stewart, who also played with Ellington and made brilliant use of the plunger/"pixie" type mute combination.
Thx for the info & demo. That was great!!!
At around 5:50 you had such a growly sound come out. I'm trying to get an Ellington-style solo in my band. Could you tell me how you did that? Thanks!
I was using the flutter tongue technique of growling there, a favorite device of Bubber Miley's.
Good job. I learned something.
Beautiful
Cool sound. :)
great
I never knew how famous Dillon was!
Wow
Jon Erik, really nice playing and history breifing!
Tack from Sweden. Guess u have Swedish names?
Sorry, just saw this. I’m of Danish heritage on my father’s side.
dstaop thanks!
turn on Captions when he plays
Deatherman102 Heheheh!
On the cootie style are you using the growl technique of actually using your voice? I have a plunger solo on Pyramid and I want to know which technique I should use. Thank you!
yes, I was using my voice to create that type of growl
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Raíza Andrade
I was considering getting a trumpet a learning the cup plunger method. Any advice on trumpet for a newbie
BrotherCavefish always a good idea to hire a good private teacher. Augment that with this series of free lessons in the Jazz Academy series.
When you're playing East St. Louis Toodle-oo, what are you doing to get the sound at 5:53? I can't seem to get my tongue to make that sound happen.
I was double tonguing there
If u wanna get a cheap pixie mute u easly can buy those as picolo trumpet mute
4:43 what song is that?
5:53 how did he do that tremolo thing?
I was double tonguing. Just before that I was growling and shaking the note at the same time, to me, that’s more like a tremolo, maybe that’s what you were asking about.
What trumpet dos he play this
Nahz Plays - I was playing on a DeNicola trumpet, a one-off balanced action style horn.
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Does anyone else feel like they needed a pencil and paper at the end. "Well there you go you have a few people to listen to...." hmmmm yeah bout that. I wish these guys would put names of artist and songs of the lesson in the description.
Jon-Erik Kellso is just stealing ideas from black musicians. This guy can't really swing. It just doesn't sound right. Wynton I know you're a busy man...but Jon-Erik? Really?