I’ve done exactly one copying job with Jazz font and it was for the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band in the 90s when it first came out. Obviously these were musicians who had spent their entire lives reading actual hand copied music so I thought they would like it. They hated it! “What the hell is this?!? A computer pretending to be handcopied?!?” Of course Jazz font is particularly illegible and the noteheads are tiny. Jon Faddis said to never use it again for the band so I didn’t. Frank Wess pulled me aside after rehearsal and asked if I would redo his part with the “normal” font as he was having such a hard time reading it, so I did. Thus ended my experiment with handwritten music fonts.
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