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@stumac said in Trumpet Board Remote Performance:

I get Video unavailable.

Regards, Stuart.

Perhaps due to the alcohol content, it may not be available to minors.

I purchased his amazing album Line 4. Very creative way he used to compile a collection of mostly original tunes by his quartet. I am providing a sample from this album as well. Christophe is one of to most uniquely original jazz trumpet performers I have had the chance to experience. He has a sound and technique that instantly identifies him as the artist.

ENJOY:

@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:

@Dr-GO said in A little humour:

@SSmith1226 said in A little humour:

@Dr-GO said in A little humour:

The WORSE case of rectal prolapse I've ever seen! Hell's bells, the damn thing looks like it has fibrosis as hard a brass.

An Br-Ass Prolapsing Artisan’s Bell no less.

I rectum so.

@Shifty said in Brasswind Research:

@barliman2001
They are on the web: https://brasswindresearch.com/

Thanks Shifty. After going to your link I checked the "About" page and found this:

After reading this, I felt like such an idiot. Robert Love plays in a big band, 2 chairs down from me. I rehearse with him tomorrow night. I knew Robert made mouthpieces but did not know Brasswind was his company. He is an amazingly nice person. This is a truly good man to work with.

Beautiful, and Happy New Year to you my friend, from the Moderna wuss!

@GeorgeB said in Just Another "New" Discovery:

@Dr-GO
I'd get a kick out of anything Botti plays. He is marvelous and just seems to make it look so easy.

He is one of the best, accuracy and control of pitch he is a master at doing this. He really knows how to connect with an audience as well. I have seen him live and in person. Gave him one of the songs I wrote, "Midnight in Tuscany" which he graciously accepted but I have not heard it recorded yet.

@BigDub said in A little humour:

Seen today in Horseshoe Bend, Idaho.
Pretty clever.

@BigDub said in A little humour:

YUmmmmm..... DISFIGURED Finger licking good!

Here is a pic of that band on that evening:

@georgeb said in Some Of Your Favorite Trumpet Gals:

@bigdub

Yeah, she is good, Wayne. I've watched quite a few of her videos.

Did you watch closely at 3:39 on. You can really see the facial muscles from the upper lips toward the orbits of her eyes work as she uses the "phwoooooo" embouchure. It is a much softer approach to the embouchure, and is the most efficient from the concept of expanding energy for trumpet playing.

It was TIne that said in an interview posted elsewhere on this blog that "I do not buzz". In fact, she "phwooooooooos".

@Kehaulani said in RIP Trumpet "Master":

So, seeking a brilliant and technical insight into breathing technique, I expressed my confusion and asked Fleming what his approach was.
"Cough", he said. I coughed.
"See?" he said. LOL

Ultimately, to do it right, breathing should come naturally to work for the individual. A cough is natural. So relax and play, then see what works well, which his ultimately the correct way to breathe will come naturally.

I mean the good Lord figured this out early for our species. Heck if God intended mankind to have to think about our breathing, we would have been an extinct species tens of thousands of years ago... yes, even before we evolved to be the ultimate of humans... trumpet players!

A medical student I was teaching just found were he matched for residency training. He was so excited but saddened that he would be leaving the Dayton area he wanted to share a memory with me from a few years back

After he finished a course I was teaching on lipid metabolism during his first year of medical school, at the end of a semester. he wanted to get back to focusing less on medicine and more on music. So he invited me over to his home and we recorded an iTunes song performed by his sister, with him putting down drum, guitar and keyboard tracks, and me on Flugelhorn.

After that session, he wanted to do a version of "Fly Me to the Moon", no music in front of us and here is what we did, unrehearsed and in one take:
Youtube Video

Or Picking the Jetson's theme!

Youtube Video

Could Frank have two names?

No. He is what he is.

An amazing example of teamwork:

I heard this driving home listening to Real Jazz on Sirius XM. It was the only time I had to pull over to the side of the street and stop the car. Chick Corea was bigger then life. To me there was never an end to his time on earth. I heard he had a rare cancer that finally claimed him to go the the plane, that has taking all of our greats to gather. Maybe, just maybe he returns in the soul of a new prodigy. Who knows, maybe Joey Alexander is the soul of one of the previous greats taken away from us in this spiritual plane. If so, I am looking for one kick ass pianist to be born real soon that will take over where Chick Corea left off.

@BigDub said in Another one slides in, quietly taking a seat at the end of the bar...:
...We even have black bear, coyotes, foxes, raccoons, skunks, and an over abundance of white tailed deer.

The number one killer of Americans is not Black or Grizzly Bears, Coyotes, or even Sharks. It's the White Tailed Deer.

Let's grill venison for the 4th and save Americans and America.
Now you have herd my bias.

Happy 4th Y'all!

My own personal perspective in finding out about, then ordering my Harrelson Summit:

I was first introduced to the Harrelson brand by a visiting Harrelson representative that was in my area and arranged for a demonstration with a local professional artist. I attended this meeting, played a variety of Harrelson horns, and came to enjoy the Summit model. That professional came to a rehearsal (and gig) to let me try out the horn I liked. When I contacted Harrelson (the company) to order the horn, I was told I was to get a call back from Jason (the owner) to get specifics about the order. That response really floored me as in all the years I purchased new horns on my own (Kanstul, Getzen, Allora, Olds back in the day) the manufacturer or their representative never called me back to get personal input.

I almost immediately received a call from Jason Harrelson who interviewed me as to the horns I have played in the past, what I liked or didn't like about the horns. He asked me what I wanted and how I intended to use the horn I was ordering from him. After giving him this valuable information regarding my performance preferences, styles, venues and specific intended use for this horn, he then went over many options as to the leadpipe and bell varieties he offered AND THERE WERE A LOT. This would have otherwise been intimidating, if it were not for the fact that I had already played a variety of his horns AND he was very good at explaining the performance response between the leadpipe and bell designs. He also has a graph with the options and plots out the performance characteristics for those customers that want to see a real time graphic comparison of size vs response characteristics. And that is when I was sold and placed my order.

So my fist specific question to all other Harrelson purchasers' was this your experience as well?
For individuals reading this thread that purchased Monette (or other personalized brands), was your experience similar?

@Doodlin said in Unsafe Sax-To Circular Breath or Not:

...Another study may be in order!

Already done. In 2014 I had the misfortune of being in an ICU bed for 3 weeks with tubes coming out of many many parts of my body. I had my wife bring in my pocket trumpet with my Yamaha silent mute, and I played in my hospital bed for hours a day. I decided with all the monitoring devices to "study" the circular breathing effects on my lung and heart function. The results: My pulse oximeter reading should my oxygen saturation INCREASED on average by 6%. So pulmonary function increased. My pulse actually dropped by 10 beats per minute (relaxed cardiac function) and blood pressure remained in normal range. So, I personally feel pulmonary function is enhanced by circular breathing.

This actually reinforces the benefit of positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP) on increasing (not fibrosing or decreasing) alveolar function. This increases the volume of our end airway sacs and improves the surface area for oxygen absorption. This would counter any physiological argument for interstitial thickening (or fibrosis) as is suggested in that BMJ article.

The discussion of this article in the Editorial section by many actually suggest the author was a bit light hearted (joking) regarding his conclusions as to cause and effect for earlier mortality for sax players.

Weekend's coming up so I think I only go 28 in today!

@Kehaulani said in Does a large bore horn take more air?:

So, if I buy a medium-bore Getzen and a large-bore Getzen, and a medium-bore Schilke and a large-bore Schilke, will the medium-bore horns be have certain characteristics that separate them from their large-bore counterparts?

So this IS for sure: If you buy both a medium and large-bore Getzen AND Schilke, the companies of Getzen and Schilke will definitely profit!