Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy

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Chuck Nessa, This seems to be as good as place to ask about this as any. Lester Bowie used smears, growls and half valve effects in his playing. Was this based on his familiarity with Bubber Miley, Rex Stewart and other earlier trumpet players who featured those effects, or was it something that Lester just came up with on his own, as part of his own personality and ideas?