barliman2001. I am wishing you speedy recovery from your urgent medical matter. Thoughts of healing are going out to you. Glad to hear it's not Corona. Have been loosing some good musicians to that one. Hopefully this malady you will beat in now time and will have a speedy recovery!

What band is that? I didn't know that the Army had a band there which had nine trumpets?

@Dr-Mark said in Unbelievable. Too young and for no reason.:

@flugelgirl
A fellow West Virginian, Bill Withers has just passed.
Just damned.

Ain't no sunshine since he's gone.

@Kehaulani
I fart in your general direction? What a waste. Everybody likes their own brand.

Mrs. and I are both 67 y/o. We are ordering groceries for delivery, which has been working out OK. We are also keeping my 88 y/o mom supplied with groceries. I dropped off her portion of the latest order this morning. She is doing well. She has her very old standard poodle for company and Mrs. and I visit her once a week and share a meal. She (mom) is still an active accordionist, and while the band she leads is on hiatus she is working on some solo pieces. Her comment about her music making this morning was that “Brahms must have been crazy!” She asked me what I was working on now that my community band was no longer meeting. I told her that I was working on arrangements of Stardust and Moon River that require transposition, along with my normal stuff. Mrs. has been playing her piano more frequently, which I always enjoy. The last couple days, though, she has been captivated by a new jigsaw puzzle. All told, we three seniors are adjusting well enough to “The New Reality”.

@BigDub said in Artist on BOARD:

Here are some subtle finishing touches. I think I may be done with it, but I will wait a while to decide...

Looks dog-gone-good to me. Nothing fur-ther needs to be done from my prospective.

@Kehaulani said in CLEAN YOUR HORN!:

... having less resistance from the sudden absence of junk in it = change in pulmonary airway from aerosolization of growth in the brass"

This is an appropriate English to Medical Language translation.

@SSmith1226 said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:

Lockdown With Essential Services Only

Social Distancing... For Sure!!

It was just announced, he died of pneumonia and his Covid-19 testing was positive.

Magic

I never cared much for most of his music. Seemed to me better suited as background for The Dating Game. But as a producer he's one of the best. And a side of him that is perhaps overshadowed by his musical work is his humanitarian work. He's a personification of "passing it on".

An example of his personal good heart was when I found out that, on Chet Baker's return after a long hiatus, the night of the concert Herb found out that Chet had no trumpet and Herb drove home, picked up his own trumpet, and loaned it to Chet for the gig. Man, that's going the extra mile. I got a whole new of appreciation for Herb Alpert the man. Happy Birthday!

@Dr-Mark

Stuck in a shelter is right. I miss my band mates and many of my musical friends who would get together with me on weekends to jam a bit. So now all I do is play for myself and that ain't good because I am constantly picking my playing apart...

@SSmith1226
Very interesting, Steve. Living up to responsibilities, well that says a lot about the man, doesn't it.

Dr. Downing, 26th NC Regt. Band, sent me several of that group's recordings several years ago. I discovered "Butcher's and Drover's March" in a museum here in Arkansas and provided it to him. The band's arranger produced a band arrangement from the piano score and the 6th performed it. The march was from 1860's Philadelphia and composed by the first black band leader in the city. I believe his name was Johnson. I ran the Ark. 5th Regt. Band for a few years. We played in 4 states and performed for the national SCV convention. Never could afford replica instruments, but the Robb Stewart horns looked great.

@stumac said in Garth Brooks Gershwin Award:

Not available in Australia due to rights restrictions.

What? Australia is Not Southern enough!

@Kehaulani

@Kehaulani said in Change in paradigm?:

When I started reading this thread and it clumped trumpet technology/sound in a 50 year grouping, my mindset was as if I was reading about something historical, antique, distant past. Then I realized that last 50 year clump wasn't in the historic, distant past. It was within my lifetime!

I most certainly agree! I started playing in 1966 over 50 years ago.

Unfortunately, we only have audio documentation for the last 100 years or so. The instruments in museums and in the hands of very gifted players however are showing the 50 year turnover on style/construction/technical possibilities. I do not have instruments from every epoque, but I have natural trumpets from the Rennaissance, early baroque, late baroque and classical periods. I have valved instruments from around 1880 to very modern Monette. Even the approach to playing these instruments is different.

Such a beautiful piece of music made even more beautiful the way the musicians come together. I have seen this video before and it always moves me tremendously.

@Dr-GO
I'm certainly well aware of Chris Botti. Love his work.