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After transcribing a lot of great jazz players it’s very refreshing to transcribe something like this. What a sound! click here for the trumpet part…

I finished transcribing al solos by Nicholas Payton from the “Fingerpainting” album. 40 pages of magic trumpet playing! Yesterday this page of track 13 “Oliloqui…

I’m transcribing one of my favorite albums: “Fingerpainting” with Nicholas Payton on trumpet, Christian McBride on bass and Mark Whitfield on guitar. I just finished…

I’m working on a new book which will be about jazz articulation. I’ve finished transcribing 23 solo transcriptions from Louis Armstrong till Roy Hargrove. This…

Today I started a new job as a trumpet technique teacher (jazz) at the Amsterdam University of the Arts. I will do my best to…

I wrote a new warming-up book for trumpet because I don’t like playing boring exercises like flow studies or long tones. So I had the…

Here another transcription from Conrad Gozzo called “You Go To My Head”. What a sound!      

If you don’t know what singing on a trumpet sounds like, listen to Conrad Gozzo, one of my trumpet heros! Here a broadcast featuring Conrad…

I payed Hub van Laar a visit today for a new trumpet. After testing most models in his shop (like B1, B2, B5, B6, R1,…

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