Comments on: The Art of the Sideman – Guest Post by Art Brown http://oneworkingmusician.com/the-art-of-the-sideman-guest-post-by-art-brown Makin' It Happen - Livin' the Dream - Payin' the Bills Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:41:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Keith Beesley http://oneworkingmusician.com/the-art-of-the-sideman-guest-post-by-art-brown/comment-page-1#comment-224 Keith Beesley Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:31:42 +0000 http://oneworkingmusician.com/?p=650#comment-224 Art, nice post. You could have expanded a bit more on what you were required to do for the various sideman gigs; play as part of a horn section, do a solo, play written lines as the only horn, etc. As to your question at the end, I think being a leader and a sideman each present different challenges and different learning opportunities. Taking direction from someone else can be difficult, depending on one's personality, but we all learned to play by playing "other people's music," whether jazz standards, classical repertoire, or rock cover songs, right? Art, nice post. You could have expanded a bit more on what you were required to do for the various sideman gigs; play as part of a horn section, do a solo, play written lines as the only horn, etc.

As to your question at the end, I think being a leader and a sideman each present different challenges and different learning opportunities. Taking direction from someone else can be difficult, depending on one’s personality, but we all learned to play by playing “other people’s music,” whether jazz standards, classical repertoire, or rock cover songs, right?

]]> By: Jacob Stickney http://oneworkingmusician.com/the-art-of-the-sideman-guest-post-by-art-brown/comment-page-1#comment-222 Jacob Stickney Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:25:11 +0000 http://oneworkingmusician.com/?p=650#comment-222 Thanks for sharing, Art. Thanks for sharing, Art.

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