Posts made by Kehaulani

@J-Jericho said in First Horns:

@Kehaulani said in First Horns:

Jerico - Pan American?

I seriously doubt it. This horn was an irredeemable POSTSO.

So was my Pan American. Bought it for a dollar.

I don't intend to pile on, but I think the reasons for the general demise in the popularity of Jazz is much more complex than to hang it on one music genre.

Jerico - Pan American?

Cool. I started out as a tween listening to a jazz show that came on at midnight. I had to hide from my parents, who thought I was sleeping. I think the host was Al "Jazzbo" Collins. He always started out talking about going into this grotto and listening to jazz there. It was kind of evocative and put you in an "aside" mood. Maybe that was the name of the show - Jazz Grotto.

But my main point of the thread is how musically illiterate our fractionalized society has become. When I lived in Germany, I don't think there was anybody who didn't know what you were talking about. They might not have liked all jazz but they were familiar with it. And it was the same way in America when I was a kid.

What happened? And is this just related to jazz, or other musics as well?

Thanks. I actually listen to AccuJazz. Lot of choices and it's free.
www.accujazz.com/

@Dale-Proctor said in What happened to Jazz programming?:
Well, there’s been plenty of jazz recorded since the 60s for sure. Problem is, a lot of it isn’t worth listening to...lol

Matter of opinion, but I think there has been a ton of music in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000 and 2010s that equals in quality and quantity with pre-60s Jazz

@flugelgirl said in First Horns:
It plays like a sewer pipe,

LOL!

@djeffers78 said in What happened to Jazz programming?:
Not enough people out there that really understand Jazz.

We had a jazz big band come to the apartments where I lived and gave a concert. Afterwards, several people were talking to me and asked what kind of music that was. I was trying to be gracious (instead of calling them illiterate idiots) and I said that it was Jazz. Each of them was a little dismayed said that they thought "Jazz" was music like "that old New Orleans stuff". Jeez. I may not care for much country music but I know who Faith Hill is.

I just moved, changing my cable T.V. provider in the process. It has a bazillion music listening stations. Even FIVE country-type channels. But, dig, it has a "Classic Jazz" channel, which plays mainly music of the 50s and 60s and a "Soft Jazz" channel. That's it. There was no Jazz played and recorded between the 60s and now? What's that all about?

That's a touching story and a sweet letter. We need more of that.

Regarding Gallipoli - made me sick.
And regarding playing a bugle at 06:00 A.M - not before my morning espresso.

Well, my first horn was a hand-me-down silver cornet from Austria. I stopped by some relatives on my way to Japan. My cousin had just gotten a new trumpet and wanted to know if I wanted his cornet, which I took. Took a lesson from my cousin-in-law who became almost legendary in his region, so got off to a good start. Not much later, the valves froze on me and I got a used, no-name American cornet for fifteen bucks. What did I know?

Changed it about five yeas later for a K-Modified Selmer trumpet in 1960. I think it was a really good horn but I got a new trumpet teacher and he influenced me into getting a new Connstellation. BTW, I later learned later that he got kickbacks from a certain music store. But, like I said, what did I know? Nevertheless, it was a good horn and served me well.

No pictures unless hieroglyphics are accepted.

This is kind of an aside, but the above comment of including Eterna Piccolo reminded me that back in the 60s when Getzen put out a periodical newspaper - remember those days?.

there was an American playing in an Eastern European orchestra, who would regularly report on his use of higher-pitched trumpets. These Getzens were evidently good enough to play in a major European orchestra.

@administrator said in Getzen Club:

Getzen cornets are seriously my favorite. Very nice tone and very affordable.

The trumpet section of an Air Force (A.F.) band I led, was asked (A,F.'s expense, not their's) to "arm" themselves with a section of cornets. They travelled to a major music retailer, tried them all out, and came back with a section of shephard-crooked Getzen cornets.

That's the name of it, Lip Flexibilities (Bai Lin).
Excellent book.

@Dale-Proctor said in Lip Flexibilities:

I like the green Schlossberg book for flexibility studies.

Is there a chartreuse one?

Does Classic, in this sense, mean the Severinsen?

Since it's new, contractual obligations may prohibit the name Severinsen. So does the Classic actually hearken back to the Severinsen or are they two different horns?

Just to be clear, Long Tones by Chicowicz is commonly misrepresented by calling them Flow Studies. They are different:

https://www.windsongpress.com/product/cichowicz-long-tone-studies/
cichowicz

https://www.windsongpress.com/product/cichowicz-flow-studies-vol-1/

Long Tones to start out - maybe Chicowicz Long Tones also to get the air moving - then straight into flexibilities. I concentrate on (varies) Schlossberg, Maggio and Spaulding.

Dr. GO, I thought you played a Committee for everything.

Dale, no matter how pretty that horn is they sucked. I'll lesson the blow, just because it's you, and take it off your hands for thirty-five bucks.