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…
A solo transcription of one of my favorite solos played by Clifford: Split Kick. Here the complete transcription with ending:
Here the final post about the horn studies written by Georg Kopprasch. I adapted a few more studies for trumpet and transposed them in various keys.…
Luigi Fontana wrote a etude book called “12 Studies for clarinet” and I edited 3 of them for trumpet. click here for the sheet music…
Yesterday I visited Hub van Laar to say hello and see what’s new in his shop. I had a concert in Maastricht with the Jazzorchestra of…
Yesterday I was shooting some pictures at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. They have a week full of masterclasses this week, so enough subjects to photograph. Here a…
Another 4 Studies composed by Georg Kopprasch in various keys.