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Congratulations from this end as well. The D# and the Ab and especially the A above that D# in the upper range are particularly challenging, as I find any high range combination including the second valve as a little tricky for slotting. When you are up in that range, the slotting gets tighter so you can tend to glide to another "false tonic" unless you are solid on the note. Can't do much to make that D# or Ab easier, but for the A, using the false fingering third valve only really helps to lock that A into place.

@SchilkeB6 said in Scream Machine by Maynard Ferguson... Wow!!:

@Dr-GO
Okay, I give....

I have met you and can't tell which one is you on the album cover!

As I noted, the band we initially formed later evolved into Kinesis. This album was cut a year after I left Ft. Collins for graduate school in NYC. So this is the photo of the band after I left. Mark Schloniker (on the right in the blue sweater) took over the keyboards and synthesizers after I left. I did come back to visit that band pictured above and they were heavily recruiting me come back to the group and add me on the Hammond B3 (as well as a second synthesizer presence), but I was at that time too involved with my NYC projects and turned the offer down to rejoin.

So that is why there is no one recognizable as me in that picture.

@tjcombo said in A little humour:

@BigDub the trombone guys are way ahead of us...

Yet, another thing to think about!

@BigDub said in Try this 6/8 exercise, at 100 bpm. If you got it, then try it at 120! (it's not as easy as you think!):

@Dr-GO when does the trumpet come in?

It plays the entire time. Lower harmony.

@A-N-A-Mendez said in Welcome to TrumpetBoards!:

Just heard from the trumpetmaster owner...

April Fools

A bit off track but the ANA Mendez April Fools reminded of the first April Fools post I saw today on my Facebook account. A chick singer I recently backed up posted an ultrasound of a fetus, and claimed it to be hers. The date on the ultrasound (dated in 1973) made it obvious that it was not really her ultrasound. People were then congratulating her on her Facebook account.

My response was: "So when are we going to tell everyone that I am the Father".

@edfitzvb said in Welcome to TrumpetBoards!:

Okay, I am officially "here." I had already posted a few times, but this seems to be where everybody "checks in." Great to see so many names that have added to my knowledge base over the years.

A.N.A. should I make that TM check payable to you? If not, everyone can send a check to me, I'll be SURE to get it in the right hands.....

I am privileged. I know the correct mailing address of ANA Mendez from purchasing items from him in the past and already sent the check directly to him.

Oh, by the way ANA Mendez, I now realize my dyslexia was active when I wrote out that check, and I mistook that period as a comma. So can you refund me the difference on that $100,000 I originally sent you. Thanks as I could use that refund to pay for another Harrelson.

@Trumpetsplus said in Trumpets Made ONLY by Their Maker:

There is some confusing and incorrect information about various trumpet brands in this thread. BTW here are some photos on this page of an ascending valve trumpet I finished in my South Salem, NY workshop last week.
http://www.jaegerbrass.com/jaeger-ascending-c.html

Ivan! OMG it is so good to have you with us! Please make the corrections as you are the ultimate authority (utimate in case you missed the TM spelling). I anxiously await your corrections, Grand Master!

@ButchA said in Try this 6/8 exercise, at 100 bpm. If you got it, then try it at 120! (it's not as easy as you think!):

Whoa... I'll play "Potter's Clay" on my mandolin or my grandmother's heirloom violin, but I don't know about trumpet!!

ButchA, thanks for posting your initial exercise. I followed with the reply I chose to illustrate a point that these exercises are very useful and they prepare an individual toward integrating such exercises into the future performances. I found that all those years of working through rudimentary exercises really helped me in using the concepts, finger memory and rhythm approaches to these patterns that serve to enhance improvisational performance. Using patterns such as the one you illustrated has helped me identify my voice as a jazz improvisational artist.

All those years of working through the painful rudiment work books has paid off in spades in preparing me to be the quality musician that am am today, many many years later. Exercises such has these have helped me to make it through tunes such as "Potters Clay" that is now demanded of me in my professional career as a musician. I might add, those two years I studied with Mick Denneson who had really inflicted pain in making me work through that transposition etude book paid off as well!

Challenge accepted and task accomplished. Now back at cha'. This exercise reminded me of a piece in our quintet's song book called "Potter's Clay". Yep, this is what the band throws at me and I have to work with on a daily basis. So give this a try, and oh, by the way, the part is written for C instruments, so your task is to not only play it, but to transpose it as you play. That's the way I play from our song book which NO ONE in the band writes for Bb instruments. Oh yeah, the tempo is at 162. Let me know how it goes:

Dave Letterman spoke to me for sure with this Top 10 List of when you know you are a musician that is getting older:

The Top Ten ways a musician knows he's getting older...

#10) It becomes more important to find a place on stage for your fan than for your amp
#9) You have to stop the song because your ibuprofen fell behind the speaker
#8) All your fans have to leave by 9:30
#7) You check the tv schedule before booking a gig
#6) You need a nap before, during and after the gig
#5) The only Rolling Stones you care about are in your gallbladder
#4) You start listing your truss as a business expense
#3) The only white powder you have is on your feet
#2) You actually ask the guitar player to turn up
And The Number One... You don't recover from a Saturday night gig until Tuesday.

The Brits did it fairly well too with horns. This is a band I grew up with in my formative years. Learned a lot about horn arranging and voicing from this band when transcribing horn parts!

I know this is a Maynard thread but I would like to share with you this connection. When I played lead with the Colorado State Statesman, I had the pleasure of having Alan Wise that played with Maynard in his later bands. Alan was on third trumpet during that time. On second was Rick Jordan and coming in to guest an sharing lead with me was Ed Goodman, as CSU alumni. During this time we had formed a jazz funk band that later became Kinesis, which, interestingly with, I played keyboards (synthesizer). Ed Goodman was an amazing high range player and just made those high note ring clear without strain. Here is a cut from their first album with Ed on lead and Rick backing him up on trumpet. Definitely Maynard worthy.

@Kehaulani said in A little humour:

For playing duets.

While the musicians stand abreast, no doubt.

Hey BigDub... I found that high performance stereo cup mute you lost on your last vacation:

The Cincinnati Red Legs started it all, and while this isn't an opening day game ball, it has special meaning to me. In the 1965 mid-season, Ronnie Dale, the organist at Crosley Field for the Reds asked me to play a seventh inning stretch at a home game. This is a picture of the ball the team autographed for me in the dugout at the end of the game. On that ball, among many amazing stars you will note the names of Frank Robinson and Pete Rose. Off to the left side is a picture I use to back up this ball which is me playing the Hammond B3 at the club where Ronnie Dale played the organ when he was not playing for the Reds.

@barliman2001 said in Welcome to TrumpetBoards!:

Well, after mourning TM and my hard-earned status as fortissimo user, I'm here.

AND in my mind, you will always be fortissimo, no matter which site you choose to post to. Your experience, amazing guidance and passion for the trumpet is what helps to make any site to which you contribute one of greatness. Great to work with you again, sir!

@Kehaulani said in Rock, Pop, Classic 70's "Horn Bands" from back in the day?:

How's this?

Ah yes, very NICE

However, here is a cut in the days just after the band replaced David Clayton Thomas as their singer. They start this cut by first performing a Carol King song called "Snow Queen" that then morphs into "Maiden Voyage". This was a great album that was probably more jazz than the audience wanted back then and thus was more of a forgotten album. On the Maiden Voyage transition, the guitarist soloist sings along with his improv, at a time before we heard George Benson using that technique. Truly innovative

Here is a more mellower version of a Kinesis performance called "Make Me Yours". I am posting this more for Patric. The drum fill during the sax solo is one of the most taste back up performances I have ever heard in jazz. Just amazing how he builds and builds from near nothing (beginning at 2:53) to a furry of rapid fills on both toms and his double bass set.

OK, this is a bit off track but I played with this band at it's start (on synthesizer) which morphed into Kinesis from the band that backed up our Drummer, Dave Goodwin (double bass set) during his boards for his BA Degree from Colorado State. This technically was in the late '70s. Then when I left the band, wouldn't you know it, they cut this album, then started a tour with Ambrosia as their warm up band.