Posts made by Dr GO

If you spell your name backward and put an umlaut over one of the vowels, that is your Ikea name.

I am ydanö. I am fairly certain that would be a soap dish.

• A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.
• A bar was walked into by the passive voice.
• An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.
• Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”
• A question mark walks into a bar?
• Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."
• A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.
• Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.
• A synonym strolls into a tavern.
• At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.
• A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.
• A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.
• An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.
• The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.
• A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph.
• The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.
• A dyslexic walks into a bra.
• A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.
• A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
• A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.
• A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.

@_Mark_ said in Trumpet 3rd valve sharping:

... play F, press the third valve and get a B above. What am I doing wrong?

Overblowing.

From my perspective;

Dizzy Gillespie - Salt Peanuts
Randy Brecker - Some Skunk Funk
Arturo Sandoval - Flight to Freedom
Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World
Herb Alpert - Spanish Flea
Maynard Ferguson - Gonna Fly Now
Bill Chase - Get It On
Woody Shaw - Rosewood
Al Hirt - Sugar Lips
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
Lee Morgan - Sidewinder
Kenny Dorham - Blue Bossa

Jim is an amazing friend and honored The Eddie Brookshire Quintet with several performances over the years. These have been tough times for club owners, and this amazing customer helps sustain such venues with generous contributions such as this $3,000 tip for a $6,50 beer!

I am a bit partial to this one that Celebrates Louis Armstrong:

Which reminds me of the following corollary?

Why does it take so long to get a cemetery plot?

Because people are dying to get in!

@J-Jericho said in A little humour:

Words to live by: When it comes to pain, 'tis better to give than to receive.

Then they come to me for evaluation and I receive again.

@Tobylou8 said in A little humour:

Do they allow loud laughing in Hawaii, or just a low ha?

Is that laiman's language?

@ROWUK said in reading the road map:
...One could also try to muscle through, I just have had better luck through optimization.

Do you find that circular breathing can get you through such phrasing without muscling, perhaps smoothing out the flow of the phrase so it does not sound overworked?

As for the concept of "gas in the tank" if you can use the technique of circular breathing, there is ALWAYS and endless supply of gas in the tank.

Isn't were to breathe a part of musical expression? If the breath marks are not inserted (and there are no inferred vocal lines in the chart) isn't it fair game to breathe as the artist performing would desire? We too are artists and can paint with or breaths and phrasing.

To me, a jazz musician, breathing and phrasing is how we express our voice. Now when it comes to a jazz, contemporary, pop, gospel piece, the words behind the notes should dictate the breathing and phrasing. But the artist still has their prerogative to rephrase the sentence toward a fresh presentation.

@Dale-Proctor said in Books about Trumpets:

...I was just responding to the bad joke Dr. Go was making a few posts ago.

Ha, ha... not a joke but it was 2/3 of a pun... PU.

@IrishTrumpeter said in Books about Trumpets:

...I will look out for in it in the spring !

Guess that would exclude trumpets with rotary valves.

I can relate:

@BigDub said in A little humour:

Sven, was caught in a hailstorm while driving his Saab home from work. It was pretty bad, and looked like the dents were going to be permanent. He took it to a repair shop and to his surprise, the repair man said, “you can fix those dents yourself, you know. Just blow really hard into the tailpipe and they’ll pop right out”
Ole happened to be passing by Sven's house the next day and saw Sven “fixing” his dents.
“WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO, SVEN?”
Sven told him about the repair man’s kind advice.
“Oh, Sven, he was really playing a cruel trick on you. You have to close all the windows first!”

Sounds like a very Saab story to me.

@GeorgeB said in Books about Trumpets:

What may be a bit nicer than a book would be Wynton Marsalis' dvd on History Of The Trumpet. I rented it not too long ago and found it extremely interesting. I'm thinking about buying it.

I have his book Moving to Higher Ground. Very good. More about blues and jazz theory, not so much about the trumpet.

@Kehaulani said in Books about Trumpets:

Acoustically or about trumpet players?

Acoustically... I believe he is looking for non-fiction.

@neal085 said in Personality and Taste in Classical Music:

Yep, booted the flute. I typically find it difficult to enjoy that instrument.

Could not eliminate the flute. Goes back to high school when member of the flute section wore tight sweaters during the winter months... so am a bit biased by fondled mammarys.

@neal085 said in Some Encouraging Voting News:
,,,I feel like I could run on a platform of making the trumpet our official national instrument, making it illegal to play viola in public, and maybe build National Mouthpiece Safari Parks.

These items definitely get my vote!