
Harry James (1916-1983)
Young Man With A Horn
Di Michel Laplace
Harry James stood between jazz virtuosity and popular showmanship, turning the trumpet into a mass-audience voice without losing the respect of classical players.
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Young Man With A Horn
Di Michel Laplace
Harry James stood between jazz virtuosity and popular showmanship, turning the trumpet into a mass-audience voice without losing the respect of classical players.

Di Pierre Trichet
A seventeenth-century description of the sackbut captures its moving slide, chromatic freedom and bass role at a moment when the instrument was still being defined.
Con le loro parole
N. 33 · 1981
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Abbonati
Should today's hornist avail himself, then, of a corno da caccia for Bach, an invention horn for Mozart, an F horn for Brahms? I do — but only on the condition that the rest of the ensemble is likewise using historical instruments. Otherwise, the same effect would result as when a carriage of the turn of the century were to be coupled to a modern diesel locomotive...
— Hermann Baumann
N. 3 1972
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Many years ago, William Vacchiano of the New York Philharmonic purchased a Bach D trumpet which played horribly sharp in pitch. When he complained to Vincent Bach, the latter, in his own inimitable style, responded by saying Vacchiano didn’t know how to play the instrument properly! So Vacchiano put the instrument in a closet and never played it. Twenty years later he discovered the instrument had been improperly fitted with an E♭ trumpet leadpipe!
— Thomas Stevens
N. 43 1983
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Tromba
Di David Hickman

Corno
Di Jeffrey Agrell

Trombone
Di Per Gade

Eufonio
Di Robert Reifsnyder
Tuba
Di Roger Bobo

Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
Momenti storici immortalati nelle pagine del Journal di Brass Bulletin.
Mauro Maur • Patrick Fabert • Thierry Caens • Guy Touvron
Brass Bulletin No. 36 1981
Sfoglia questo numeroN. 41 · 1983
Precision often begins with doing less, not more—a principle Louis Davidson places at the heart of trumpet playing with surprising practical consequences.
Di Louis Davidson
N. 40 · 1982
A legendary orchestral tuba became the starting point for rethinking how craftsmanship, industrial methods and musical results rarely follow the same path.
Di Peter Hirsbrunner
N. 39 · 1982
Intonation, held notes and mouthpiece work shape James Stamp's subtle approach to trumpet playing, where listening and physical economy guide technique.
Di Alfred Willener
N. 41 · 1983
Between blind fidelity and reckless modernisation, instrument substitutions force performers to decide when the score’s wording serves—or betrays—the music.
Di Rudolf Lewy
N. 37 · 1982
From imperial St. Petersburg to Soviet Leningrad, Volkov shaped a distinctive Russian trombone tradition through performance, teaching and generations of pupils.
Di Viktor Sumerkin
N. 41 · 1983
Behind the polished sound of Los Angeles studio trumpet playing stood remarkably similar training, disciplined routines, and a craft shaped by constant stylistic demands.
Di Boyde Hood
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