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Happy Birthday TrumpetBoards... Sent your gift through the mail. You deserve it!

If you can take a trumpet, the Yamaha Silent Mute.

If you cannot take a trumpet (like Disney Cruises-where confiscate your trumpet or to Saudi Arabia where music is outlawed and they confiscate your hands), take a mouthpiece and cup it in a hand towel.

Learning from the Greats. A summary of Jazz Quotes:

Charles Mingus: ‘"You can’t improvise on nothin’, man. You gotta improvise on somethin’". AND "In my music, I am trying to play the truth in what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I am changing all the time.

Wynton Marsalis: "In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and vocabulary. There's no right or wrong, just some choices that are better than others." AND "Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them."

George Gershwin: "Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise."

Cecil Taylor: "Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself."

Sonny Rolins: "I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music."

Mose Allison: "As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality."

Ahmad Jamal: "Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play."

Thelonious Monk: " I don't know were jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens."

Oscar Peterson: "It's group sound that's important. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times.

Miles Davis: "Do not fear mistakes. There are none."

Louis Armstrong: "There are only two ways to sum up music: Either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess with it, you just enjoy it.

Duke Ellington: "By enlarge jazz has always been like the kind of man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with."

John Coltrane: "My music is the spiritual expression of what I am- my faith, my knowledge, my being... When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups... I want to speak to their souls."

Charlie Parker: "Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art." AND "Don't play the saxophone, let it play you."

Billy Holiday: "I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession. If you can, than it ain't music. its a close order drill, or exercise or yodeling or something not music.

Bill Evans: "What bugs me is when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

Dizzy Gillespie: '"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play"

Finished my Christmas Performance at the Lutheran Church just a few hours ago, the last service ending about 12:15 AM! Two Services were played. One at 7 pm, the other started at 10:30 pm.

The organ/trumpet combo was just perfect. The organist arranged I play each hymn with the lyrical line the first verse, sit out the second verse (choir only sings) the descant vocal line for the third verse, and the trumpet descant part (the piccolo lines) for the forth verse. That REALLY was a nice way to present the parts as ending with the descant piccolo line really made the ending ring out in the church.

Just got word that my Easter gig is still on. The pastor is going to record the Easter service including my performance on Friday before Easter then steam the service on their Facebook page on Easter Sunday. I am sending my performance contract this evening.

What ever method decided, I cannot expand any higher on my transposition training I received from Mick Dennisen when he was teaching me at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. At the time he had me run through many, many months of mental torture (like learning a new language with EVERY key change), it has paid in spades many many years later. Whether playing off the piano score in small group ensembles or going though various versions of Organ Music in so many keys for non-Bb instruments, it has been a real career enhancer to go into to any new performance rehearsal and playing off a score with my Bb trumpet in hand, and play any original keyed arrangement with minimal effort.

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Get ready to be blown away:

The organist also had the brilliant idea of ending the performance as the congregation processed out with Te Deum, Prelude pour Trompette & Orgue by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704). While not a traditional Christmas piece, man did it make for a perfect finale to bring a Christmas Service to a close!

An innovator in many ways, beyond his performance tribute. His work in the recording industry in supporting up and coming artists is truly amazing. His venture into hip hop shows as well his forward thinking to constantly evolve, and clearly his age does not interfere with this process.

A poem I just found that puts into perspective, Ohio in the winter:

A WINTER POEM

It's winter in OHIO
And the gentle breezes blow
Seventy miles an hour
At five below.
Oh, how I love OHIO
When the snow's up to your butt
You take a breath of winter
And your nose gets frozen shut.
Yes,
The weather here is wonderful
So I guess I'll hang around
I could never leave OHIO
Cuz I'm frozen to the ground!

Every 3rd Thursday of the month I have played in a an 18 piece jazz orchestra at a dance hall (The Milton Club). The floor is always packed. I enjoy watching the dancers as much as I do playing. Have been doing this gig since 2012.

@Bertie said in Christmas Services:

My son was born a week ago, so you know... not much sleep anyway

Hope you were not the one chosen to do the breast feeding!

Congratulations!

@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.

In my other career, I am still going into my medical practice, but seeing most patients (especially patients with respiratory illness and fever) at their homes through Zoom, that uses their cell phone or lap top computer camera feature projected onto my laptop. It is amazing how many patients have home BP cuffs, that we are able to get vitals and temperatures for our online visit.

If patients need scripts (in Ohio for controlled substances) they drive into the parking lot and scripts are delivered through their car window. If they need lab or x-ray testing, they drive in one at a time and are chaperoned at six feet distances into the testing are where staff are gowned, gloved and masked.

The Federal Government has relaxed HIPAA standards and most insurance companies now allow for billing for this Telemedicine practice. The New Reality for physicians.

@GeorgeB said in Artist on BOARD:

@BigDub

If you make the dog any more real looking than it is, it just might bite you in the ass...

It might, as I just cleaned up its poop!

Don't forget, it's not just the changes you need to hear but also the rhythm. If all you have is rhythm then the world of improv is yours to provide a new direction. That makes it all the more fun and inspiring.

For patients that do come in to see me at the practice, I developed a welcome line to breakthrough the stress:

Is that hand sanitizer in your pocket or are you just happy to be within 6 ft of me?

Just received this email from the leader of one of the big bands I play in:

Hey Generations,
I hope everyone is doing well, I've talked to many of you over the past week. I miss performing with you all. Several members have spoken with me about a recording from home project. So we're going to try it. We have decided to do 145 All The Way.... I will be sending out a backing track in the next couple of days, you can listen to the track and play your part along with it... You will need to video yourself playing your part on a GoPro, Tablet, or cell phone, while listening to the backing track through headphones... Once you have recorded your parts you can upload them... I will be mixing the audio.

This sounds like an innovative idea. If it happens, I will provide an update as to how this works out.

@trumpetb said in What's the recording in this scene?:

This although neither Chet nor Miles, speaks to me as powerfully as any work by Miles or by Chet, thank you for posting it.

We are hearing work of the highest quality here and hearing the work of genius equal to the very best in the world.

Trumpetb thanks for your perspective. Till Bronner is now my all time favorite musician. Also had the pleasure of meeting him. The next day he invited me on stage and we had the chance to play together and at one point to trading 8's.