GSSD:I think Satchmo and the post-1923(say) jazzers produced fabulous innovations, and feature hugely in my record collection! But I think the timeless quality and space in the pre-lapsarian pre-Satchmo New Orleans players, and the Bahamian brass street bands, had absolutely the airiness that I wanted for this tune. And I also wanted to emphasise the origin of this song in the Caribbean. SO we played our hommage to a style that never existed except in our heads! There you go. That's where we were when we did it in 1989, and re-played it last week in that video clip. But I am very sure that in five years time we will be doing Shallow Brown very differently again. It is a continuous thread in my head, that tune and those words!
PS The Clarinet and the first trobone were improvising. The trumpet and second trombone were playing a fixed line.