Your own Sound

Peter Evans (New York Trumpeter/Composer) writes:

"A few years ago when discussing how one develops their "own sound" and what that really means, the trumpeter Steven Bernstein remarked that when one hears something back on a recording of them that they don't like, THAT's their sound- everything else in their playing is something they only like because it reminds them of music they are familiar with."

Like the author, this strikes me with a great amount of truth, albeit a bit difficult to ingest.

Posted by jeff pitcher at February 23, 2010 08:43 AM

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