My Spanish Heart – Chick Corea
Anna Netrebko:Russian Album – Anna Netrebko
Time’s Mirror – Tom Harrell
Rachmaninoff:Vespers – Robert Shaw Festival Singers
Mahler Symphony No. 9 – Chicago Symphony/Boulez
Bruckner Symphony No. 7 – Herseth shows how it’s done
I’m currently working up Bruckner Symphony No. 7 for an upcoming concert. After listening to a few recordings, I decided to consult YouTube for some more interpretations. I found a real gem of a performance, the Chicago Symphony under Solti. Bud Herseth is an unrelenting powerhouse with endurance for days. He can play a full page at practically full tilt only to sound light and BEAUTIFUL for the next pp entrance, like it was the first entrance of the piece. Bud’s sound is singing, heroic, illuminating, commanding, whispering, magic, and the view into the man’s heart. There’s a reason he is the gold standard of trumpet playing.
Uncle Larry releases new EP House Fly
Read about Uncle Larry‘s new EP House Fly at Documents Unknown. I was fortunate enough to be a guest on this album and really enjoyed laying down a trumpet track. Get out there and support a talented and unique Milwaukee band!
Recommended Music!
Of Knights and Castles – Burning River Brass
The New One – Buddy Rich
The Sidewinder – Lee Morgan
B Minor Mass – Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Solti
Allegri: Miserere; Palestrina: Missa Pape Marcelli – Peter Phillips: Tallis Scholars
National Brass Symposium master class
Here’s an excellent video of orchestral brass playing. It’s the famous chorale in the 5th movement of Mahler’s 2nd Symphony. Note the trumpet section is made up of the principals of the New York Philharmonic (Philip Smith), Cleveland Orchestra (Michael Sachs), Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Chris Martin), and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Tom Rolfs).
Here’s another of the opening of Also Sprach Zarathustra. Personnel is slightly different. I really like the conducting of Michael Mulcahy (2nd trombone with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra). Do you?
How about Tchaikovsky’s 4th?
The lighter side of the trumpet……
Some excellent playing here from Markus Wursch on both Bb/A piccolo and G trumpet.
Recommended Music!
The Holman and Russo Charts – Stan Kenton
Live at the House of Tribes – Wynton Marsalis
Holst: The Planets – Chicago Symphony Orchestra, James Levine
From This Moment – Nicholas Payton
Sketches of Spain – Miles Davis
Stockholm Chamber Brass!
Here’s a fun video of some great brass playing with some fun percussion stuff too!
Snooky Young, R.I.P.
One of the great lead trumpet players of all time has passed away. Famous for playing with the Count Basie Orchestra, the Tonight Show Band, and many others, Snooky epitomized the style, panache, musicality, and leadership of the big band lead trumpet chair. Enjoy these clips!
Playing lead with the Count Basie Orchestra 1962.
Recommended Music!
Consummation – Thad Jones/Mel Lewis
Papa Lips – Bob Mintzer Horn Man Band
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas #8, 13, 23 & 26 – Artur Rubinstein
Schubert/Schumann: Lieder – Elly Ameling
The Messenger – Kurt Elling