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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]
Mouth trumpet is a vocal technique that imitates the sound of the trumpet.. The mouth trumpet sound is produced by using the vocal cords to produce the desired pitch and passing the sound through the lips that are held together with just enough tension so that they vibrate at the same frequency as the vocal cords, producing a trumpet-like sound.
Leonel Kaplan (born November 21, 1973) is an Argentine trumpet player active in free improvisation. He has been part of the international improvised music scene since the early 2000s, performing and recording throughout Latin America, Europe, and the U.S.
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 ...
1939 sheet music cover, "Introduced by Glenn Miller", Shapiro, Bernstein, and Co., New York In February 1944, the Glenn Miller RCA Victor Bluebird 1939 studio recording of "In the Mood" was released as a V-Disc , one of a series of recordings sent free by the U.S. War Department to overseas military personnel during World War II.
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.
The music is a continuous free improvisation with only a few brief pre-determined sections, recorded in one take with no overdubbing or editing. [7] The album features what Coleman called a “double quartet,” i.e., two self-contained jazz quartets: each with a reed instrument, trumpet, bass, and drums. [8]
"Invention for Guitar and Trumpet" features guitarist Sal Salvador. [3] A New York Times writer commented in 2003 that composer Bill Russo's "Improvisation" piece was "among the highest achievements in orchestral jazz". [4]