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Unbelieveable Playing

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:07 pm
by DonShirer
Listen to James Morrison soloing with the Black Dyke band and prepare to be awed:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz3qHs_ulzI

Plays two instruments with multiple notes per instrument!

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:17 pm
by Kunzer
Wow, pretty awesome for a white guy in a tux. Just make sure to cover your ears when the band is playing....

Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:38 pm
by tubatooter1940
I never was a James Morrison or even close but trumpet-trombone is a gig I had for 20 years. Playing both horns is not a problem if you do it a lot. Going back and forth between two different size mouthpieces is something our lips can be accustomed to and can become quite comfortable over time.
On Bourbon St. in New Orleans, there was a guy who could clasp a valve trombone and a trumpet together in his hands with the mouthpieces just inches apart and quickly blow the bejesus out of either horn. 8)
Trumpet-tuba, however is a problem for me - due to my advancing age as well as the wide disparity between the two sizes of the mouth pieces.
Thank you, DonShirer, for the opportunity to hear these wonderful players.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:29 am
by Mojo workin'
Wow, pretty awesome for a white guy in a tux
Yeah, just like most professional orchestras' brass sections.

What a politically correct pedestrian comment.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:43 am
by SplatterTone
In the future, please refer to caucasian guys.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:53 am
by Lew
If you like multiphonics this is a much better example for a tuba related site (yes I kow this has been linkd before).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHMyrhilkdo

I saw him play this at the USABTEC a couple of years ago and I enjoyed it enough to buy the CD on he spot. Although I think his perfrmance of Winter from The Four Seasons was probably more reason to buy it.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:51 am
by Mojo workin'
In the future, please refer to caucasian guys
Missed my point. His comment was of the "white men can't jump" variety. Which is pretty silly considering that white men more than hold their own when it comes to brass playing.

I thought he was dead

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:29 pm
by jeopardymaster
Hmm. I was sure he OD'ed in a Paris hotel some time ago.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:44 pm
by TexTuba
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