[Trombone-l] quick! what's a "jazz mute" ?

[Adrian Drover]

> From: Ray Horton
> 
> Quick! Rehearsal tomorrow morning for Bernstein's _Divertimento for
> Orchestra_:
> 
> What does he mean in the 7th movement by a "jazz mute" ?  He's already
> asked for a "brassy mute."  There are no + or o indications, etc.
>
> The passage for "jazz mute" is "slow blues tempo" 12/8 and is low and 
> loud.


Ray, I wouldn't worry too much about it.  It seems to me like Bernstein
himself does not know what a jazz mute is.  Slow 12/8 blues does suggest ad
lib plunger, but only if it is a solo passage.

A.