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Bernard Vitet – trumpet; Voice Crack – electronics; Philipp Wachsmann – violin; John Bruce Wallace – electric guitar; Jane Wang (composer and musician) – double bass; Trevor Watts – saxophone; Kenny Wheeler – trumpet; Wolter Wierbos – trombone; Wu Fei - guzheng; Otomo Yoshihide – guitar, turntable; Reynaldo Young – guitar ...
The big band album Song for Someone (1973) fused Wheeler's characteristic orchestral writing with passages of free improvisation provided by musicians such as Evan Parker and Derek Bailey, and was also named Album of the Year by Melody Maker magazine in 1975. It has subsequently been reissued on CD by Parker's Psi label. [8]
Several trumpet ensembles and workshops in Abelton Live and group improvisation also took place. The ninth annual Festival of New Trumpet Music in 2011 celebrated Kenny Wheeler and Bill Dixon. It featured performances by Jonathan Finlayson, John Hollenbeck , Ingrid Jensen, Stephanie Richards , Tomasz Stanko , and Kenny Wheeler
Thomas Stevens lecturing at Camp McNab 2012. Thomas Stevens (July 29, 1938 – July 14, 2018) [1] was an American trumpeter, composer, and author.. Thomas Stevens was appointed to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra [2] in 1965 by then music director, Zubin Mehta, who named him principal trumpet in 1972, a position he held until 2000.
Background information; Born October 2, 1981 (age 43)Genres: Free improvisation, avant-garde jazz, contemporary classical: Occupation: Musician: Instrument(s) Trumpet, piccolo trumpet
Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any general rules, instead following the intuition of its performers. The term can refer to both a technique—employed by any musician in any genre—and as a recognizable genre of experimental music in its own right.
It was a typical New Orleans jazz band in instrumentation, consisting of trumpet, clarinet, and trombone backed by a rhythm section. The original New Orleans jazz style leaned heavily on collective improvisation , in which the three horns together played the lead: the trumpet played the main melody , and the clarinet and trombone played ...
William Alexander Adam (October 21, 1917 – November 25, 2013) was an American trumpeter, respected pedagogue, and Professor Emeritus at Indiana University.He was highly analytical as a teacher, but always avoided discussing the mechanical aspects of trumpet playing with a student.