Posts made by SSmith1226

(just kidding, sort of)

On August 27, 2022, 95 year old Doc Severinsen, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., performed in his “final concert”. Below are both links to both an article and video about this. Highlights of Doc’s performance start at around 1:45 in this video taken by one of the attendees.

https://bestclassicbands.com/doc-severinsen-final-concert-8-31-22/

@j-jericho
Trumpet- Cylindrical Bore
Cornet- Conical Bore

This was recently discussed on the TH Site. Read the first post. It should provide you with the information you are asking about.

https://www.trumpetherald.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1661728#1661728

A link to an excellent article independently posted on TH about Jamie Branch:

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/24/1119174908/jaimie-branch-trumpet-obituary

There is much more information in this article compared to the one I posted earlier.

Jaimie Branch, avant-garde trumpet player, died in her Brooklyn home at age 39. I personally had not heard of her before. Perhaps some of you have. She appears to have been very talented. The story is below.
To be clear, and avoid confusion, THIS IS NOT Jamie, of Jaimie’s Trumpet Gallery, which is located in Melbourne, Florida.

https://www.thefader.com/2022/08/23/jaimie-branch-dies-at-39

@kehaulani said in Amadeus Cafe:

I've got a Flintstones story,
I was going from one main venue to anther to see Joe Henderson at the New Orleans Jazz Festival, when I passed a little kiosk with a young band playing their a**es off. Small group of listeners. The band was playing the tune Flintstones.

I told the girl I was with, "Hear those folks? The music business is so tough, you may never hear from them again. But the are world class."

After the gig, I talked to them for a while. Real nice guys. Turned out to be Wynton ane Branford Marsalis!

I lived in New Orleans from July, 1974 through June, 1979. In 1975 or 1976 I took my girlfriend, who is now my wife, to a small bar / restaurant in the French Quarter. We listened to these young kids who were great. I didn’t speak with them, but the Marsalis Brothers were wonderfully talented. Her roommate’s father, George Jansen, was one of Wynton Marsalis’s early Trumpet Teachers when he was in high school. In 1975 or 1976 Wynton would have been 14 or 15.
The closest that I came to Wynton Marsalis after my first encounter, was test playing one of his horns at the Monette Facility around five years ago while it was in the final phases of being built. Needless to say, it did not improve my playing.

This is the menu from the Amadeus café in Mahon Menorca. It is unlikely that Mozart composed this.

@administrator said in I bought a fairly rare trumpet:

Well...I did it again. I bought another trumpet when I should not have!

I apologize in advance. I have done it to many times myself!

Today on YouTube, I stumbled across a 12 part trumpet tutorial series presented by James Morrison. I’ve only had a chance to look at three of the 12 videos, thus far, but I thought that many of you would find the series interesting. They can all be found on theYouTube Channel of Philippe Kinnaer, which you can search for in YouTube.
Here is an example of one of the tutorial videos.

@fels said in How Louis Armstrong, Jazz, And The Mafia Got All Tangled Up In Storyville:

Foot note for SSmith biographic post

Satchmo My Life in New Orleans
Scholar Select
Page 126

Thanks!

@kehaulani said in How Louis Armstrong, Jazz, And The Mafia Got All Tangled Up In Storyville:

Interesting read, I enjoyed it, thanks. I didn't see how a direct Mafia-to Louis link was made, though.

New Orleans was the first area in the United States where the Mafia was established as far back as the 1800s. One of the early crime families was the “Matranga Family”. Louis Armstrong’s employer, according to the original post was “Henry Matranga”. The following is an excerpt from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_crime_family

“ The Matranga crime family, established by Charles (1857 - October 28, 1943) and Antonio (Tony) Matranga (d. 1890 ?), was one of the earliest recorded American Mafia crime families, operating in New Orleans during the late 19th century until the beginning of Prohibition in 1920.

Born of Arbëreshê descent and members of the Italo-Albanian Greek Catholic Church in Piana dei Greci, Sicily, Carlo and Antonio Matranga immigrated to New Orleans during the 1870s and eventually opened a saloon and brothel. Using their business as a base of operations, the Matranga brothers began establishing lucrative organized criminal activities including extortion and labor racketeering. Receiving tribute payments from Italian laborers and dockworkers, as well as from the Provenzano family (who came from the same village), they eventually began moving in on Provenzano fruit loading operations intimidating the Provenzanos with threats of violence.….”

In his autobiography, Armstrong writes about his arrest, and mentions Matranga. "They did not book us right away and held us for investigation in the prison yard with the long-term prisoners waiting to go up the river," Armstrong writes, describing a situation that might conflict with civil liberties protections today.
The experience was jarring for the young man.

"The first day we were in the yard, I went up to shake hands with one of the prisoners I had known out on the street," he writes. "All of a sudden someone jabbed me in the back with a broom handle and tripped me up. When I looked up, I saw Sore Dick (the yard boss) staring at me without saying a word. It dawned on me at once that I had better get busy with the broom he was holding. All the newcomers, I later found out, had to sweep out the yard whether it needed it or not. That is the way they get you in the groove before you start serving a term."

Matranga pulled some strings ("part of a system that was always worked in those days," Armstrong notes) and got the cornet player out of jail -- and just in time. "The day I got out of jail, Mardi Gras was being celebrated," Armstrong writes. "It's a great day for all New Orleans, and particularly for the Zulu Aid Pleasure and Social Club (sic)."

He continues, "When I ran into this celebration and the good music, I forgot all about Sore Dick and the Parish Prison…..”

I just stumbled across this article today and I thought that some you might find it interesting:

https://crimereads.com/jazz-organized-crime-louis-armstrong-mafia/

@jamiejazz
Welcome to TrumpetBoards.Com.
I have visited Jamie’s Trumpet Gallery in person, and I even think I posted about it. It hosts Super high end / high quality horns, many of which are not available elsewhere without long custom waits, that are immediately available here. Talk about instant gratification! Jamie also is an accomplished professional jazz trumpet player and vocalist. If you haven’t checked out her website, do so. Look under “gallery” to see her available horns.
In addition to the amazing trumpet collection, as an added bonus, the gallery is associated with Atlantic Music Center in Melbourne Florida, which hosts the largest collection of pianos that I have ever seen.

@vulgano-brother said in I Just Saw This on Classic FM:

Better than any Super Bowl rendition in recent years.

I know that I didn’t originally post this about great renditions of the national anthem and the Super Bowl, but Vulgano-Brother’s comments, for me as a trumpet player, brought to mind a couple of great and memorable renditions of the National Anthem, as well as a wonderful SB Half Time Show.

I just saw this rendition of the National Anthem on Classic FM.

https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/videos/musical-saw-us-national-anthem/

@j-jericho
That’s the same model that Ram Bowen used,

At St. John’s Academy in Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia, a black bear has been scaring students with raids on the waste bins.

Until a music teacher came out and scared it off with a trombone.

@seth-of-lagos said in TrumpetBoards.com Quiz:

@ssmith1226 I don't know the piece, but I see the crux of the problem!

After your first post, I almost added another clue, “…and it’s not Crosby, Stills, and Nash”.

@georgeb said in Artist on BOARD:

@bigdub

Wayne, were you attempting something different in this picture ? It just seems a slight change in style. Or maybe it's just my old eyes. Regardless, it is a beautiful canvas.

George

@BigDub
And the painting ain’t bad either…
I hope that you didn’t fall down that cliff!