Posts made by SSmith1226

@neal085 said in The New Reality:

Also, is that Fred Flintstone's car going past at the 5:08 mark?

You’re right! Here is a screen shot.

Who was that that left handed masked man trumpet player?
Hint: It’s not the Lone Ranger.

According to Ultimateclassicrock.com:

“Paul McCartney returned to his roots when he appeared on a fundraising broadcast and played trumpet on “When the Saints Go Marching In.”

He was joined by Elvis Costello, Dave Grohl, Dave Matthews, Jim James, Irma Thomas and Nathaniel Rateliff during the benefit performance for the New Orleans Preservation Hall Foundation, with funds directed to helping musicians during the coronavirus pandemic.

You can watch McCartney’s rusty performance, as well as the full show, below.

As The Daily Beatle points out, “When the Saints Go Marching In” was the first single the Beatles ever appeared on; they were credited as the Beat Brothers along with headlining singer Tony Sheridan in 1961. The song was re-released three years later, along with A-side “My Bonnie,” by which time it was credited to the Beatles with Sheridan.

McCartney began learning to play the trumpet after he was given one for his 14th birthday, but he soon gave up on it. In the book The Words and Music of Paul McCartney: The Solo Years, Perez Benitez notes, “Although he could eventually play a C-major scale, ‘The Saints Go Marching In’ and a few other things on the trumpet, McCartney quickly realized that it was going to be difficult for him to both sing and play a trumpet at the same time. Accordingly, with his father’s permission, he traded in the first instrument he ever owned for that Zenith acoustic guitar.”

“The members of our Musical Collective serve in vital community roles: as mentors, teaching artists and tradition bearers,” the Preservation Hall Foundation said in a statement. “Providing for their well-being during this crisis will ensure a solid future for the generations of New Orleans musicians still to come. Spotify is matching all donations to help us provide support and resources to the members of our collective. Through its COVID-19 Music Relief initiative, Spotify has pledged to match up to $10 million in donations to its nonprofit partners around the world.”

@J-Jericho said in Trumpet Board Performance:

@SSmith1226 I'd be interested in taking a look at your ensemble arrangements.

Multiple ensembles were sent via email. These are not for general distribution. They are only to evaluate for possible TB performance. In addition I sent video performances of three of these ensembles that can be used as base tracks to coordinate all who participate.

If anyone else is interested in possibly participating let me know and i can send you further information. Please post on this thread to confirm your potential interest in participating in a Trumpet Board Remote Performance and send me an email at SSmith1226@aol.com so I can send you a few arrangements for evaluation. I am not sending these arrangements for general distribution. They are meant only to be used for the TB Remote Performance Project.

@BigDub

Wayne,
It is good to see that great minds think alike. I proposed this 17 days ago and thus far no brave souls other than me, and now you, have volunteered.
Here is the link to that discussion:

https://trumpetboards.com/topic/711/trumpet-board-performance/7

If there are enough volunteers, I will send you some music to look at.

That is my understanding. As such all recordings have to be made with the performer listening to the same rhythm or reference track.

It is obvious that a number of the TB members have a great deal of knowledge and experience that they can impart to the membership. These include areas such as basic trumpet instruction, advanced pedagogy, the comeback player, musical theory, performance including Orchestral, Popular, Big Band, Jazz, Rock, etc., Conducting, Music Composition, Musical Arrangement, playing specialty instruments, instrument building, instrument repair, Instrument restoration, Vintage Instruments, Historical Instruments, the business side of music, etc. The number and variety of these presentations by volunteer experts can go on and on. Perhaps we could pick a day of the week and time that would be inclusive of members from around the world, where it be possible for a series of voluntary presenters can be scheduled weekly to give live talks and lead discussions among TB members and guests on subjects of the presenter’s choosing. Each session can be recorded and later placed in its own thread for people to view, ask questions, and comment on if they were unable to attend the live session. Any posts on theses threads should perhaps be prescreened to avoid inappropriate conflict, lack of civility, or trolling.

Alternatively, the presenter could make a home video of an educational presentation, post it on YouTube, privately or otherwise, with a link on the TB site, in order to open a similar edited discussion or even a live Zoom discussion as one would conduct a book club. There are members that have such videos already made. Perhaps they would be willing to lead discussions based on them.

Not only do we have a core of qualified active members, we have even more nonparticipating members, who might participate either to give a presentation, series of presentations, or attend a presentation. Email Invitations to all members to do this might open up more frequent participation by these individuals as well and demonstrate that we are interested in Trumpet and other musical subject matter.

@administrator said in Trumpet Board Performance:

It probably wouldn't be very hard. Just setup a thread with a link to a free Zoom room.

As far as a remote performance venue, I do not know whether Zoom will work. I have not tried Zoom, but have tried Face Time and Skype for duets with other players. The player who counts the start of the piece experiences a delay in feed back. The player who plays the second part plays with the first part in a coordinated manner, but in reality, the first part may not get to him or her for a second or two after it was played. That means that when the second part gets back to the player of the first part, who counted them in, there is another second or two delay. Obviously this leads to confusion and cacophony to the leader of the remotely performed duet, but sounds good to the person playing the second part.
Another example of this is when on TV, a news anchor remotely is talking to a remote reporter, there is noticeable delay. I suspect that Zoom will be similar.
Individual parts I believe will need to be recorded separately, in tune, in coordination with a prerecorded track. That is why the musicians on the multitrack remote recordings wear head phones or ear buds. The individual recordings, which can be as simple as cell phone recordings, are then submitted where they are transferred to a computer where the tracks can be lined up to play back in a time coordinated unified fashion. If there was interest in TB members coming together for such a project I would look further into the software and hardware necessary to accomplish this. As far as trumpet ensemble arrangements, I have a six part arrangement of “Night in Tunisia” and a four part arrangement of “Havana”. I’m sure others might have other suitable arrangements. The number of participants is not limited by the number of parts.
If anyone has an interest in participating, let me know, and if there is enough interest, I can send the arrangements via email.
As far as the potential use of Zoom in the context of Trumpet Boards, perhaps there is a place for it. I will present my thoughts on that as a separate topic, “Zoom and Trumpet Boards”, and again ask for input from the group.

The United States Naval Band from home:

@adc
I would still be very cautious and not underestimate this illness. We all have to do what we have to do, but consider, below is a before and after photo of a very healthy 43 year old who spent 6 weeks in the hospital and wasted away 50 lbs. When off the Ventilator and well enough to be discharged he looked like a survivor of Auschwitz. The link to the story is:
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/coronavirus/san-francisco-nurse-details-6-week-battle-with-covid-19-has-dire-warning/2294978/

In addition two days ago the New York Times reported the first double lung transplant on a otherwise healthy women in her 20’s whose lungs were destroyed by COVID-19.
Here is the link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/health/coronavirus-lung-transplant.html

George,
It sounds like an interesting movie with a very good cast. I will have to look for it and watch it when I have a chance.

@GeorgeB

According to Wikipedia, Sammy Davis’s trumpet performances were dubbed by Nat Adderley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_Called_Adam_(film)

Here is a link to a timely article from today’s issue of The Guardian on this subject:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/06/why-classical-musicians-need-to-learn-how-to-improvise

I opened a thread titled “Trumpet Board Performance” to discuss this specific concept further. If possible, please address any further ideas or opinions relative to putting together a Trumpet Boards group performance video at that thread.
Thanks.

I thought that I would start this as a separate thread. Under the thread, “The New Reality”, many of us have posted discussion and performances of music under quarantine, from soloists, families, Big Bands, Symphony Orchestras, and world wide groups.
Yesterday, I posted a Peruvian Trumpet Performance made up up individual performers from their living rooms all over Peru. Let me throw the following idea out to the group. Since there still are no current local performance opportunities, would there be any interest in putting together a video such as this and others on this thread, made up of Trumpet Board members. This could include members from anywhere in the world. Each individual recording can be made with iPhone, similar equipment, or more professional equipment, if available. The biggest stumbling block would be the editing and production. I have neither the know how, the software, or hardware to pull this off. Let me open this idea to the group to see whether this is viable. If someone has a simple solution to the technical problem, I would be willing to explore it and see whether I can take this on.

@GeorgeB
Let me throw this idea out to the group. Since there still are no performance opportunities, would there be any interest in putting together a video such as this and others on tjis thread, made up of Trumpet Board members. Each individual recording can be made with iPhone, similar equipment, or more professional equipment, if available. The biggest stumbling block would be the editing and production. I have neither the know how, the software, or hardware to pull this off. Let me open this idea to the group to see whether this is viable.

Leonard Cohen’s Halleluja performed by “United Trumpeters Peruvian”.

This concept could open up community band rehearsals. The only addition would have to be a Crown Royal nag or similar device on the bell of the instrument to filter any droplets.

There is currently an active thread that in general is promoting increasing our posts about music related topics. I saw the article that I presented and was impressed that the performer was able to present “Old MacDonald” as a Beethoven like piece by essentially improvising, using the same skills as a Jazz Musician would in the same situation, although the skills will be used differently. See below video for an example to contrast with the Beethoven linked video.

The Certs commercial was J.Jericho’s post, not mine. He is a man of mystery, but this post demonstrates that he might be a member of the Diplomatic Corps!!!

@Kehaulani said in Is It Jazz or Is It Classical?:

I don't know why you even mention Jazz in the title. To me it's pure Beethoven, with the caveat that he probably wouldn't have used the original theme to Old McDonald, in the first place. To me there's nothing brilliant about it, just a good pianist who knows his Beethoven.

The posting of this topic was an attempt at starting a musically relevant discussion.
Please keep in mind that I am not a professional musician, I do not have a Doctorate or any other degree in Music, but I enjoy listening to music and as a musician, I am a novice hobbiest, I played the character Ludwig van Beethoven in a third grade play, and I slept at a Holliday Inn Express. Now that we have my qualifications out of the way I made the statement based on one important aspect of jazz that clearly distinguishes it from other traditional musical areas , especially from classical music. The Jazz performer is is primarily or wholly a creative , improvising composer. He or she is their own composer, sometimes composing wholly original pieces, but more often, modifying existing pieces. In classical music the performer interprets and expresses someone else's composition note for note. Generally the performer of classical music does not modify the piece composition wise.
In the particular piece, Old MacDonald, 95% of what was played was composed through improvisation by the performer around the simple melody of Old MacDonald. The improvisation was in the style of Beethoven, but not written by Beethoven. The style could have been improvised in the pentatonic patterns used by John Coletrane, making it clearly recognizable as jazz, but the performer improvised using patterns made most recognizable by Beethoven.
Admittedly, Beethoven, Mozart, and other classical composers improvised within their genres, but performers play their compositions back note for note and vary the nuances as their interpretation. Both Daniel Vnukowski in Old Mac Donald, and Duke Ellington in his interpretation the Nutcracker Suite accomplished the same goal in different directions. They took known musical pieces and modified the genre and playback though creative improvising composition. Thus my question, and conclusion. I knew that there was going to be debate over the correct answer, if there is one, and welcome the opportunity to learn from the discussion, since sleeping in the Holliday Inn Express does not universally make one an expert at everything.

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