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I’ve played under a lot of conductors in my time, some great and some not so great. One thing that always personified the great ones was an insistence on strong Continue Reading →

Recently someone asked me a question that has stumped musicians for eons: what is style? That question reminds me of an old comedy routine from our own Second City improv Continue Reading →

I was listening to someone play the other day and after they played a passage with a particularly dead sound, I said; “that’s the Zombie sound, now give me the Continue Reading →

There has been a lot of misunderstanding of the role the mouthpiece plays in brass playing. It was and is generally thought that the best approach is what used to Continue Reading →

Here is a special treat for my readers. Robert Lambert was my teacher from 1959 to 1962. He was principal trombone of the Chicago Symphony from 1954-64. He was also Continue Reading →