Here is a MUST for all you aspiring jazzers……….. Patterns For Jazz by Jerry Coker
Well, I tried it and I do not like it. Some valve oils will give your fast valves but the consistency of the oil sometimes disperses the oil so fast that the oil does not give you long lasting fast valves. That is what this oil does. I had to re-oil my valves every day in order to keep them working smoothly. So, I’m back again to my Al Cas valve oil which keeps the valves working smoothly for a much longer period.
First let me give you some adjectives which in my opinion describe this limited showing new film. Awful, demeaning, racially uncomfortable, sadistic, masochistic, dark, morbid, artistic (in a bad way), tiring, boring, confusing, creepy, erotic, brutal, suggestive, irritating, inaccurate, uninspired, irritating, sickening, unfocused, meandering, uninformative, endless……………. Now that I have given my opinion on this disappointing film, I will give some of the many examples which brought me to this conclusion. As soon as I heard that they had done a film about Buddy Bolden and that Wynton Marsalis was involved with the music for the film, I had great…
As technology continues to advance, long time problems seem to disappear. Check out …… irealpro.com In the beginning, we had to call up some friends in order to practice the art of improvisation. Then we were privileged to the Jamey Aebersold series of “LPs”. Soon the digital age took over and we could simply toss in a CD to practice. How far can we go in this never ending quest for perfection? This might be as far as we “need” to go! The advanced features of this Ap far exceeds anything available up to this time. Check out all these…
12 Best Flugelhorn Reviews and the Best Flugel horn Brands And now for my review of this instrument. Based on a 5* rating Materials- **** Workmanship- **** Finish- ***** Mechanics- *** Valves- *** Weight- *** Feel- *** Response- *** Intonation- **** Threading on Valves and Valve caps- * Original Mouthpiece- * Case- * General comments- • 3 water keys (1st water key did not work because the spring was installed incorrectly) • 3rd valve slide spring loaded compensator works very well • The instrument feels very light which might be the reason it sounds more on the bright side. •…
In order to keep our readers up to date on new products and new ideas, we try to get our hands on products for review and evaluation and this is one of those cases. A good friend and fellow musician recently purchased a new Hawk Flugelhorn and I asked to borrow it for a while so I could run it through some scales to see if this instrument was really worth the $279.00- $333.95 price tag. Before I give you my reading of the instrument, I want to first share with you actual customers opinions on their recent purchase of…
From time to time new innovations crop up which, according to their inventers/designers, will revolutionize all trumpet playing. In a few cases, we are benefited by these improvements but in most cases the new ideas fall way short from their advertised benefits. Case in point is the continuing push for plastic trumpets. I have been performing on one such innovation for several years. When the PBone first came out, my wife surprised me with one for Christmas. After many Dixieland jobs and constant work to improve the less than adequate slide, I finally became satisfied with the “pretend plastic trombone”.…
As most of my readers know by now with my heart attack from two years back, one of the side effects was that I lost about half of my vital capacity (total air intake). While in physical therapy, I asked my therapist if it would ever come back and in a very encouraging fashion she assured me that it would eventually return. It didn’t. The reason I was able to recognize the actual amount of this loss was from the fact that most of my practice material is pre-recorded with click tracks. Exercises which were played in one breath now…
As some of you may know, I have been very vocal when speaking of the Texas University Interscholastic League Solo and Ensemble Submission Policy. For more background on this subject read… http://www.thetrumpetblog.com/the-university-interscholastic-league-solo-and-ensemble-music/ also… http://www.thetrumpetblog.com/new-additions-to-uil-prescribed-solo-ensemble-music-list-for-grade-2-trumpet-quartet-numbers/ Eventually I received this response… http://www.thetrumpetblog.com/an-encouraging-response-from-the-university-interscholastic-league-solo-and-ensemble-music-department/ Today I checked their site and was very pleased to find that Mr. Musella is a man of his word for now composers and arrangers are able to submit their work for consideration to be added to the current listings of qualified solo ensemble material for contest. This is a very big change and I would like to thank the…
thetrumpetblog.com was selected as the Top Trumpet Blog and Website To Follow in 2018 I would like to thank all of our supporters who have been following our site for the past eight years. It seems only yesterday that we started and this week we were honored by being chosen “The Top Trumpet Blog and Web Site to follow in 2018″! This recognition was bestowed upon our site by Feedspot and is the content reader for reading all your favorite blogs and news websites in one place. Below is a description of how this selection is determined. “The Best Trumpet…