Here a interesting video (1981) with the late Clark Terry talking trumpet. Here another one with Clark Terry from 1966, also featuring Bobby Hackett, Ruby Braff, Henry “Red”…
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Here a interesting masterclass of Phil Smith, the former Principal Trumpet of the New York Philharmonic and played with the orchestra from 1978 to 2014. Here also…
Photography is next to music my great passion. I already had a webshop for my arrangements and now I created another webshop for my best pictures. Please…
Giuseppe Prestini was professor at the conservatories of Florence and Venice Italy and oboe soloist with Toscanini in many of his American tours. He was…
Here are 3 exercises with 3 major triads (C-Bb-Ab) in all keys.
William Vacchiano (May 23, 1912 – September 19, 2005) was a trumpeter and trumpet instructor. Originally from Portland, Maine, Vacchiano studied trumpet at age 12.…
Never-before-seen footage shows Louis Armstrong recording his 1959 album “Satchmo Plays King Oliver”! Click for more info
The composition Freda is a great tune for practicing double tonguing, but a bit hard to play in the original key. It’s recorded by the…
Here the trumpet part and a video with the piano accompaniment. Alexander Fyodorovich Goedicke (1877 – 1957) was a Russian composer and pianist. Goedicke was a professor…
Here are 4 etudes written by Mazas (for violin) adapted for trumpet and transposed in various keys. Jacques Féréol Mazas (born 23 September 1782 in Lavaur…
An updated version of this great song and solo by Clifford Brown.
Here are 2 solo transcriptions of “Toccata in D” for trumpet and organ written by Giambattia Martini (1706-1784). I wrote out the piccolo trumpet parts as played by…