Slide Hampton discusses the trombone.

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Slide Hampton on the physical demands of playing the trombone.

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Slide Hampton on playing the trombone versus arranging.

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Q: “You have to be in pretty good shape then, physically [to play the trombone]”?

A: “Well, you really have to love that instrument and you really have to really try to come to grips with the natural concept of playing the instrument. Also, the instrument will really work you awful hard and it will sound like it's work. I mean, it will sound very difficult. It will sound like it is difficult and that's the thing that most of us are trying to achieve to try to get to the place that we have enough control of the instrument to be able to play whatever we play and keep it on a certain level of musicianship. To make it sound as though we are not straining too much to play what we're playing. ’Cause there is some strain involved with playing the instrument. The more that you get it under control, of course, then the more that you can make everything sound natural, as natural as you want it to sound, but you really have to push it from a very natural standpoint in order to be able to accomplish that.”