Ginetta’s Vendetta, Pocketful of Cool | The Vinyl Anachronist

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Just last week I was discussing the flugelhorn, and how I was considering this mellow cousin of the trumpet as the next musical instrument I’d like to learn. After listening to Ginetta’s Vendetta and their new album Pocketful of Cool, I might have a new candidate–the pocket trumpet. Ginetta Vendetta–that’s her name, and Ginetta’s Vendetta is the name of her quintet–has been playing the pocket trumpet for many years in addition to singing and composing. When I listened to Pocketful of Cool for the first time, I was expecting a “toy” version of the trumpet, a sound that is perhaps higher and lighter. If you know anything about pocket trumpets, you’ll know that’s just not the case. The pocket trumpet plays the same range as the trumpet, and if you straightened it out it would measure the same. The idea of the pocket trumpet is one of convenience, that it’s easier to carry around when you need an impromptu practice session. It’s considered a bit of a novelty, and not something you’d pull out on stage, although Don Cherry used to do it occasionally. Ginetta’s Vendetta takes the opposite approach–Vendetta herself likes to say that “with my horn as my […]

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