Benny Goodman returned to his swing band because he concluded that was what he knew best. In 1953, he said, "Maybe bop has done more to set music back for years than anything...Basically it's all wrong. It's not even knowing the scales...Bop was mostly publicity and people figuring angles." In 1949 he studied with clarinetist Reginald Kell, requiring a change in technique: "instead of holding the mouthpiece between his front teeth and lower lip, as he had done since he first took a clarinet in hand 30 years earlier, Goodman learned to adjust his embouchure to the use of both lips and
Instrument-switch Talking Heads song "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" was so named because every member of the band played an instrument normally unfamiliar to them. An example of this performance is seen in the Jonathan Demme movie "Stop Making Sense". Instrument-switch Instrument-switching is a practice of live musicians in which musicians trade their instruments and perform with an instrument with which they are usually not associated. Instrument switches are usually employed to entertain the audience and demonstrate the band's proficiency. Many bands have employed instrument switches in their live performances; some of the best-known are Dream Theater (as Nightmare