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Trumpetstud Veteran Member
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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 7:35 pm Post subject: Books every trumpet player should read |
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I'm looking for books to read (not method books) but History, Theory, autobiographies etc.
I actually bought Miles Davis' autobiography and I'm really loving it. Any must haves you can think of?
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falado Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, “The Loudest Trumpet” comes to mind. It’s about Buddy Bolden. In it you will find other people and history to look up. Bunk Johnson and other players from New Orleans. Also, go on JASTOR; you can do lots of research though that site.
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kehaulani Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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Straight Life. Art Pepper.
Incredible autobiography. _________________ "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Bird
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trpt.hick Rafael Méndez Forum Moderator
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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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Trumpet Greats by Hickman / Tarr / Laplace
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jhatpro Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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“Thinking in Jazz:The Infinite Art of Improvisation,” Paul Berliner _________________ Jim Hatfield
"The notes are there - find them.” Mingus
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hup_d_dup Veteran Member
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 3:38 am Post subject: |
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I agree that the Davis book is a good one.
If you appreciate the music of Charles Mingus you should read Mingus: A Critical Biography by Brian Priestley. As well as being a great musician Mingus had an interesting - if difficult to deal with - personality.
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 4:49 am Post subject: |
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The Trumpet / Ed Tarr _________________ Yamaha YTR6345HGS Bb
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Billy B Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 5:22 am Post subject: |
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The Inner Game of Tennis
Psycho-Cybernetics
Zen And The Art of Archery
As A Man Thinketh _________________ Bill Bergren |
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kehaulani Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 7:24 am Post subject: |
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Billy B wrote: |
Psycho-Cybernetics
Zen And The Art of Archery
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Ditto.
jhatpro wrote: | “Thinking in Jazz:The Infinite Art of Improvisation,” Paul Berliner |
An outstanding book and not for the faint of heart. _________________ "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Bird
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Jerry Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 7:52 am Post subject: |
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In the late sixties, my (first) trumpet teacher had taken up tennis. His instructor suggested he read the Inner Game of Tennis.
During one of our trumpet lessons, my teacher was telling me about it and how he thought it could apply to trumpet playing as well. I soon got a copy of the book and read it, but I think it was above my teenage brain at the time. |
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jhatpro Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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A few more:
"Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker," James Gavin. The good, bad, and the ugly about the legend.
"Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong," Terry Teachout. Essential reading about the first jazz soloist.
"This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession," Daniel J. Levitan. A deep dive into what happens when we listen and play.
"Pops Foster: The Autobiography of a New Orleans Jazzman," as told to Tom Stoddard. Charming and thoroughly compelling recollections from Foster's 70 years as a bass player.
"Trumpet Science: Understanding Performance Through Physics, Physiology, and Psychology," Ben Peterson. Everything you wonder about trumpets and trumpet playing explained.
"The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century," Alex Ross. The New Yorker's music critic expounds on music in Stalin's Russia, bop, rock, and much more.
"Sweet Swing Blues on the Road" Wynton Marsalis and Frank Stewart. Marsalis' words and Stewart's photos capture a young jazz band on tour in America. _________________ Jim Hatfield
"The notes are there - find them.” Mingus
2021 Martinus Geelan Custom
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1946 Conn Victor
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Trumpjerele Veteran Member
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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"To be or not to bop", Dizzy Gillespie _________________ Notice!!! Amateur musician without formal studies
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Trumpetstud Veteran Member
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks so much for the recommendations |
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timothyquinlan Veteran Member
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JoseLindE4 Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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My Top 3
Steenstrup, Teaching Brass is the best book on pedagogy that I've ever read. Even if you don't teach, it will make you a better self-teacher.
David McGill, Sound In Motion is the best book on phrasing that I've ever read and changed my life as a musician. It takes a certain level of music theory background to understand though, but it's worth the effort.
Keith Johnson, The Art of Trumpet Playing contains lessons on playing and teaching that I've relied upon my entire playing and teaching career.
Books that stopped me in my tracks:
The already mentioned Effortless Mastery has quite a few moments where I needed to stop reading for a while and just think.
The already mentioned Gould on Music is excellent and had one or two chapters that also made me just close the book and think a while.
Books that every trumpet player should read:
Tarr, The Trumpet
Smithers, The Music & History of the Baroque Trumpet Before 1721
Other
Not a book, but Thomas Stevens On Musicianship: Vacchiano's Rules And Beyond is a $3 rental on Amazon. My first viewing completely changed me as a musician. I recommend watching this once a year or so.
Tennis, the Inner Game is good and a very quick read.
Zen and the Art of Archery is thought provoking and also a quick read.
Don Greene, Fight Your Fear and Win is a much more systematic look at performance anxiety. |
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Tpt_Guy Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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Last Stop, Carnegie Hall: New York Philharmonic Trumpeter William Vacchiano by Brian A. Shook
Excellent book. _________________ -Tom Hall-
"A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence."
-Bruce Lee |
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spitvalve Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2023 6:32 am Post subject: |
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The Art of Trumpet Playing by Keith Johnson. Don't know if it's still in print. _________________ Bryan Fields
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Halflip Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2023 6:49 am Post subject: |
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Alec Wilder In Spite Of Himself: A Life Of The Composer
I bought a hardcopy version of this some years ago and found it a very informative and entertaining read.
Alec Wilder is one of the lesser-known contributors to "The Great American Songbook" and also one of the more erudite. The composer of While We're Young, Blackberry Winter, Moon and Sand, and It's So Peaceful In The Country (among many others), he inspired Bob Brookmeyer, Marian McPartland, Ben Sidran, Jackie and Roy, Roland Hanna, Bob Levy, and a number of other jazz and jazz-influenced musicians to do 'all Wilder' albums. Furthermore, he wrote the reference book, American Popular Song/The Great Innovators 1900-1950. Given the number of jazz standards that come from the pantheon of American popular music before 1950, a biography of a composer who made such a thorough study of this genre should be of interest to fans and players of jazz alike.
Wilder also branched into composition of classical works, and made some early contributions to what has been called "third-stream music". _________________ "He that plays the King shall be welcome . . . " (Hamlet Act II, Scene 2, Line 1416)
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kehaulani Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2023 9:17 am Post subject: |
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This was my initial reaction to several best-sellers which, I believe, are older thoughts/teachings regurgitated. If this is the first time you've read such literature, that doesn't mean the books have no worth. But if you want to dig deeper, why not go to the sources?
Sound in Motion is based on the works of Marcil Tabuteau.
The Art of Tennis and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance are based on Zen in The Art of Archery.
Effortless Mastery is warmed-over New Age philosophies which have numerous roots in the Eastern Philosophies (take your pick).
And be careful with historical biographies. Many of them are based on urban mythology and not exactly on how it is/was.
(Ducks and covers.) _________________ "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Bird
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mograph Regular Member
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Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2023 7:07 am Post subject: |
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falado wrote: | Also, go on JASTOR; you can do lots of research though that site.
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