Trumpet Player personality

kehaulani · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2017 8:15 am Post subject:

Just this note: I believe the book refers to the London Symphony Orchestra.
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Pete · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2017 10:02 am Post subject:

There are many trumpet players out there that have different personalities. The key is to associate with players that are musicians first. Wayne Bergeron, Tony Kadleck, Bobby Shew, Kevin Burns, Brian MacDonald, Roger Ingram, Maynard Ferguson and Doc Severinsen for example, are just a few that I have heard live and I am acquainted and have performed with a few of them. They have a professional attitude with their playing but are not snobs about who they are and what they do.

We have all played with some people that are critical of everyone's playing except their own. And the joke: How many trumpet players does it take to screw in a light Bulb? Four! One to screw in the bulb, and the other three tell how much better they could do it!

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I forgot in my previous post that I met All Hirt when I was a kid. He was the first big name I met. He was a really good guy. He had enormous hands and my hand disappeared as we shook hands.
Later in my early 20's I did a week long summer workshop with Danny Stiles. A name that you don't hear much since he passed away. Danny was a marvelous player and also a pretty good guy.
The only other big names I've met are Lew Soloff and Maurice Andre.
Lew was a very eccentric, quirky guy. He was also a good guy. Maurice did not speak much English but was very friendly.

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Proteus · Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2017 4:11 pm Post subject:

Indeed, I stand corrected, and thank you for that

The book is indeed about the LSO...and may still be available.

https://www.amazon.com/speak-ourselves-London-Symphony-Orchestra/dp/0718304918
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solo soprano · Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 6:15 am Post subject: Re: Trumpet Player personality

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jhatpro · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 11:27 am Post subject:

Trumpet player compliment:

"Nice solo," he lied.
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Croquethed · Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 11:48 am Post subject:

I was speaking to the CIO of a small software shop today about his use of apprenntices instead of CompSci graduates as new hires. He said he noticed the best of them have one thing in common - they play an instrument.

"And trumpet players are the smartest, right?" I asked, and he laughed. No sooner had it left my mouth than I knew I had committed a "trumpet player" thing.

There's a similarity in old lacrosse players. I asked some of the players from our local HS girls' team if they could guess what position I played. The coach, without batting an eye, said "You were a goalie."

"How'd you know that?"

"Only goalies ask that."

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Interesting to hear the mixed experiences people have had with Doc. He was cordial if not bubbly the couple of times I met him. Someone related to me a couple of interactions with Doc a number of years apart that left a bad taste in his mouth - he made an effort to engage Doc the second time thinking the first time might have been a fluke. As with a lot of people Doc was his big trumpet hero. He actually said he was tempted to pop Doc one after the second encounter - but instead he said something insulting and left. In both scenarios I can see where there might have been a misunderstanding and/or bad timing. Two sides to every story and all. Or maybe not.

I think it depends when you catch him. One story I heard he allegedly shut his hotel door in the face of Al Hirt and a guy Al was going to introduce to Doc. Maybe not true at all or a distorted version and there was more to the story that got lost along the way. Apparently Doc had been practicing - maybe pissed about being interrupted?

Yet in contrast - another hotel room related story a young lady told - she and her girl friend went to his hotel room to get an autograph and heard him having a loud argument with his wife. Going against obvious decorum and common sense they knocked anyway. You'd think that would be regarded as intrusive and he wouldn't be in any mood to indulge fans - yet per the anecdote when he answered the door he apparently couldn't have been any friendlier - gladly signed for them, chit-chatted. When they parted and the door closed they heard the argument resume. Maybe Doc was less sensitive to being interrupted by a couple of cute girls than by a gruff, bearded 300 lb guy - lol.

I personally would be a terrible celebrity - the notion of strangers constantly coming up to me wanting to engage me is about as appealing to me as a root canal.
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solo soprano · Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 2:27 pm Post subject:

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This is a great quote from above:

"All trumpet players must be comfortable playing like a gladiator, with bravado, as a leader, setting the pace and musical tone and playing all the most exciting parts in any musical score.

"It's not a fanfare without a trumpet, and a trumpet player has to have a fanfare in their soul."

Onstage the trumpet player has to be able to lead, play out and set the tone for a group. In the recent Brass Chat, Chris Martin explains that he is a shy fellow but was able to learn how to bring out his playing on the stage. It's a personality choice and challenge.

Offstage, it's a different matter. Trumpet players are human--complex and different. Some days musicians are exhausted on the road, they are busy and you're interrupting them, or simply not up to engage with fans. And to be honest, we really can't demand that celebrities be our friends. We hope they'll be nice, talk to us, give us a story or a nugget of wisdom but that's because we are fans. The relationship with celebrities is complicated and as fans we have unrealistic expectations. Some days our heroes might extend themselves and other days they need to retreat to recharge their energies. Do you really want strangers knocking at your hotel room for autographs?
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