A feisty kid from Brooklyn plays lead trumpet with Count Basie, hangs with Dizzy and Lady Day, and then at 85, starts his own band.
Author: erikveldkamp
Here a great solo played by Louis Armstrong. It’s not so difficult to play but it needs some strong chops… The solo starts after one minute.…
A great workshop by Wynton Marsalis and Jon Batiste talking about the beginnings of jazz.
I gave 3 of my favorite eBooks a new cover. You will find them in my webshop. Here some freebies from these books.
Here some clips of Maynard Ferguson in his early years. What a chops and talent he had!
A beautiful valse written by Frédéric Chopin. I’ve adapted it for piccolo trumpet in A, but you can play it on every trumpet of course…
Here the Andante from Schichardt’s Opus 20 – Sonata V. I made a backing track for the Bb trumpet transposition.
Here another Allemande written by Jean Christiaen Schickhardt. He wrote this music for flute or oboe or violin and basso continuo and but I transposed this…
The trumpet solo in a chart called Marie (as played by Tommy Dorsey) is quite challenging. So here a transcription of it. It starts at…
Here a nice Allemande written by Jean Christiaen Schickhardt. He wrote this music for flute or oboe or violin and basso continuo and but it…
We’re back from our 2 weeks tour in Austria and the Czech Republic where we started a new program called “It’s Glenn Miller Time”. Most…
Johann Christian Schickhardt was a German composer and woodwind player. He wrote some nice music so I adapted the first Sonate from Opus 17 for (piccolo) trumpet with…