Here is the latest from “The East Coast Tiny Big Band”. We consist of two lonely musicians living on the East Coast 1,300 miles apart. There is also a guest appearance of a vocalist with perfect pitch.
This should not be confused with “The East Little Big Band”, which is the parent organization of “The East Coast Tiny Big Band”. In contrast, the parent organization has 3-4 musicians at any given time. It has previously has been featured under the heading of Trumpet Board Remote performances.
Dolphins are more woodwind, specifically clarinet fans, as this video from Turkey shows.
Bijon Watson, a super lead trumpet player and jazz artist, played the acting roll of an African American night club trumpet player in La La Land. Wayne Bergeron is who you hear on the movie sound track playing, in spite of Bijon Watson being a highly respected studio musician, etc.
If you want to learn more about Bijon Watson, check out his web site: https://www.bijonwatson.com/
Ivan,
Good luck and success in all your endeavors!
@dr-go said in What are you listening to?:
Just heard this Christmas album by the Four Freshman and was blown away by the trumpet soling and tone and even more blown when I found out it was one of the Four Freshman vocalists, Curtis Calderon. Solo starts at 1:05. Very nice!
Curtis Calderon is a Schilke Artist. This is his biography.
Curtis Calderon is a native Texan and currently tours the US and world with the legendary vocal group, The Four Freshmen. He started his musical career in early high school playing with Tejano groups, an original music formed in central and south Texas. He also appeared on several Tejano records in high school and played the Tejano Music Awards. Always a big fan of jazz, he then moved on to playing with various society and jazz groups in the area. He was a three time member of the Texas All-State jazz band, earning chairs 5th, 3rd and finally 1st his senior year. After he graduated high school, he went on to tour with the Russ Morgan Orchestra and Glenn Miller Orchestra, being the featured trumpet soloist in both groups. He released several solo projects over the years, including “Only Trust Your Heart”, “Live From The Boardwalk Bistro”, and “Lost Soul: A Tribute to Chet Baker”. Before he joined the Freshmen, he free-lanced in San Antonio, TX playing their annual “Jazz Alive” jazz festival, along with doing one-off tours with Columbia Artists Management, Inc., such as the big band tour celebrating the 100th anniversary of Hoagy Carmichael’s birth and a special tour featuring Maureen McGovern and Joh Pizzarelli, being both a featured trumpet soloist in both groups as well.
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Around the age of 25 he was called on by the Four Freshmen to audition and has been with them now for 15 years. He sang the lower tenor his first 13 years in the group and now sings the upper baritone part. He is the main featured soloist and currently is the chief arranger for the group’s vocal arrangements. 8 out of the 9 arrangements on their newest record, “Four Freshmen and Friends” are his.
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Curtis is featured on numerous recordings from big bands to small groups from the central Texas area. He teaches privately and gives clinics when he’s not on tour. You can check out some of his live recordings on youtube or www.CalderonMusic.com.
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Instruments:
B6L-GP Bb Trumpet
HC2L-L Bb Trumpet
XA1-GP Bb Cornet
1040 FL-GP Flugelhorn
@tjveloce said in In search of “my horn.”:
I’m basically looking for a horn which in a blind sound test might make the listener think “is he playing a trumpet or a flugelhorn?”
A CURRY TF Mouthpiece might be a cost effective alternative.
The following is an article from yesterday’s New york Times:
Franz Streitwieser, a German-born trumpeter who amassed a collection of brass instruments that encompassed centuries of music history and drew musicians from around the world to its home in a converted barn in Pennsylvania, died on Nov. 8 in a hospice in Sebring, Fla. He was 82.
The cause was Alzheimer’s disease, his son Bernhard said.
While a performer by profession — on one of the most extroverted of orchestral instruments, no less — Mr. Streitwieser had the soul of an archivist.
He took a 19th-century yellow-and-white barn in bucolic Pennsylvania and converted it into a museum to house one of the world’s largest collections of brass instruments and to serve as well as a concert space. The Streitwieser Foundation Trumpet Museum, in Pottstown, opened in 1980 and was home to approximately 1,000 items until 1995, when it found a new home in Europe.
Mr. Streitwieser (pronounced STRITE-vee-zer) sought to elevate the trumpet’s status.
“When somebody finds an old violin in the attic, they think it’s a Stradivarius and it’s valuable,” he told The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1983. “But when somebody finds an old brass instrument in the attic, they just throw it out. We want to change that.”
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In addition to its standard brass fare, including valved trumpets, French horns and trombones, the museum showcased a variety of curiosities: over-the-shoulder trumpets used in the Civil War, replicas of Bronze Age Viking trumpets, horns carved from elephant tusks. Visitors would have encountered a life-size cardboard cutout of the composer John Philip Sousa and a 12-foot-long horn carved from pine wood, made for Swiss shepherds.
Mr. Streitwieser situated the museum in Pottstown because he and his wife, Katherine, had moved there to be closer to her relatives. She was a descendant of the DuPont family, of chemical company renown, which helped support the museum.
The museum stood on a 17-acre plot called Fairway Farm (it also had a bed-and-breakfast), and it drew brass devotees from far and wide. The music historian Herbert Heyde, who later curated the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s instrument collection, spent six months cataloging the Pottstown museum’s contents in the 1990s.
But Pottstown, which is about 40 miles from Philadelphia and closer in culture to the state’s rural center, lacked strong funding for arts programs, and attendance at the museum lagged. After Ms. Streitwieser’s death in 1993, Mr. Streitwieser could not afford to keep the museum going and was forced to find a new home for his trove. Local universities expressed interest, but none had the space.
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It was Austria to the rescue. Kremsegg Castle, near Linz, was establishing a government-funded musical instrument museum, and officials there knew of Mr. Streitwieser as a prominent collector. They offered to take in his holdings — and him as well, as a consultant. The collection was packed up and sent off in 1995.
Franz Xaver Streitwieser was born on Sept. 16, 1939, in Laufen, Germany, a Bavarian town just across the border from Austria. He was one of five children of Simon and Cecilia (Auer) Streitwieser, who were farmers.
As a boy, Franz visited a music store with his mother one day and felt drawn to a gleaming brass trumpet. But it was prohibitively expensive, so the shopkeeper pointed him to a tarnished, less costly trumpet toward the back of the store. He bought it, and after a teacher of his gave him a can of polish, it gleamed. It was the first of many instruments in his life.
Franz soon joined the town band and went on to Mozarteum University Salzburg in Austria, graduating in 1961 with a degree in trumpet performance.
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While at the university he met Katherine Schutt, an oboe and piano student from Wilmington, Del. Their courtship played out during the filming of “The Sound of Music” in and around Salzburg, and the couple became extras in several scenes.
Mr. Streitwieser and Ms. Schutt married in 1963. They lived mainly in Freiburg, Germany, where Mr. Streitwieser was principal trumpet of the Freiburg Philharmonic from 1965 to 1972. Traveling to the United States regularly, he spent a year in New York City studying at Juilliard. The couple had five children, one of whom, Heinrich, died in infancy.
Mr. Streitwieser began collecting brass instruments early on in Freiburg — his son Bernhard said the family home sometimes resembled a trumpet repair shop.
In 1977, Mr. Streitwieser worked with the German instrument maker Hans Gillhaus in designing a modern version of the corno da caccia, a circular horn popular in the 18th century; they called it a clarinhorn.
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The family moved to Pottstown in 1978. Mr. Streitwieser played in local orchestras and in 1980 received a master’s degree in music from the University of South Dakota. With Ralph T. Dudgeon, he wrote “The Flügelhorn” (2004), a history of that member of the trumpet family.
After the death of his first wife, Mr. Streitwieser married Katharine Bright in 1994 and soon moved with her to Austria in the company of his brass collection. The couple spent half the year in an apartment in the 13th-century Kremsegg Castle, at home among their horns. The rest of the time they lived in Florida, moving for good to Lake Wales, in the central part of the state, in 2004. Mr. Streitwieser founded a brass quintet and continued to perform in local festivals.The Streitwieser collection remained at Kremsegg until the musical instrument museum closed in 2018. Much of its contents were moved to Linz Castle and Museum or other museums in Upper Austria.
In addition to his son Bernhard, Mr. Streitwieser is survived by his wife; his sons Erik and Charles; his daughter, Christiane Bunn; his stepdaughter, Henrietta Trachsel; a sister, Anna Breitkreutz Neumann; and 13 grandchildren.
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Dr. Dudgeon, who also played music with Mr. Streitwieser and help catalog the brass collection, said he first heard of him in the 1970s. He had come to pick up a purchase from a Massachusetts music store and found that the shop had very few brass instruments left.
GeorgeB and barliman2001, thanks for your kind words.
Also, a little known fact, barliman2001 drove me to Schagerl Music in Mank, Austria and skillfully negotiated the purchase of the “Killer Queen” Flugelhorn I was playing in that recording.
This may be the “canary in the coal mine”, not to mention that our local large grocery chain, Publix, “where shopping is a pleasure”, is limiting its customers to two cream cheese purchases at any one time.
I took this photo in a sporting goods store yesterday.
The highest authority that I know of in terms of how to date a king, would be the Hallmark channel. There have been several movies based on this topic, and they generally involve commoners, specifically American women who are either teachers governesses, ice skaters, bakers, candy makers, or perhaps even a maid, that fall in love with a king and vice versa. Generally the kingdom is an obscure small European pseudo-country in Alp like mountains where British English is the language of choice. The King, who often is widowed with an adorable daughter looking for a mother figure, is already engaged to a member of the royalty, who hates children, especially adorable princesses who are looking for mother figures. The fiancé is often a countess, but that engagement will break off before the end of the movie, and the king will marry his true love, the American maid.
If your question, “How to date a King” refers to how to determine the date the manufacture of a King trumpet, I’m afraid I can’t help you. I hope that the information that I have given you has helped you.
@j-jericho said in New Toy (not a trumpet):
@ssmith1226 That's using your head!
Not only that, but did you notice my vintage Bach Case strapped to the back?
