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Membro
Parte 6
The Trumpet and the Cornet in Jazz and Popular Music
Special jazz techniques
Vibrato, half-valves, growls and shakes lead to a larger argument: jazz transformed trumpet technique, yet its contribution remained strikingly undervalued.
Di Michel Laplace
Gratuito
The first european horn symposium
A week in Trossingen brought leading horn players, Mozart debates, natural-horn controversies and lasting friendships at a landmark European gathering.
Di Jeffrey Agrell
Membro
Parte 3
The trombone in Jazz and Popular Music
Pluralism of expression since 1945
Bebop, cool jazz, free jazz and neo-classicism transformed the trombone after 1945, as new players, techniques and instruments pushed its boundaries.
Di Michel Laplace
Gratuito
Miles Davis
Incontro in cucina
Verdure, cavalli e una Ferrari accompagnano un Miles Davis lontano dal palco, tra vita quotidiana, musica, provocazioni e un feroce bisogno d’indipendenza.
Di Robert L. Watt
Reflections on the brass player
Why do brass players so often resist new music? Vinko Globokar dismantles schools, routines, and traditions—and calls for a freer musical mindset.
Di Vinko Globokar
Gratuito
Special Finland
The brass band tradition in Finland
Finland’s brass-band tradition grew from imperial reform into a nationwide phenomenon, before an equally systematic transformation brought the era to an end.
Di Holger Fransman
Membro
Special Finland
Brass achieves academic respectability
Once treated as marginal, Finland’s brass septet tradition entered academic research, challenging where folk practice ends and music history begins.
Di Kauko Karjalainen
Amboise, France, 3rd National Brass Band Competition
Di Benny Sluchin
Membro
Serie Il jazz e il corno • Parte 1
Jazz and the Horn
The horn was once considered incompatible with jazz until changing ideas of sound and musicians like John Graas quietly overturned that certainty.
Di Jeffrey Agrell
Gratuito
What is a Brass Band?
Barrie Perrins traces the 19th-century origins, instrumentation and social role of the brass band—from industrial roots to international musical life.
Di Barrie Perrins
Gratuito
Special Hungary
Barcs 1984
First International Brass Ensemble Competition
A small Hungarian town became a testing ground for brass chamber music, where young ensembles showed how quickly the discipline was coming of age.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
Membro
Serie Il jazz e il corno • Parte 3
Jazz and the Horn
Getting started
For the classically trained horn player, jazz replaces the security of the printed page with listening, swing and improvisation—and a different kind of discipline.
Di Jeffrey Agrell
Gratuito
Contemporary Hungarian Brass Music
From early decline to recent revival, Hungarian brass emerges through pedagogy, competitions and new chamber works, with Varasdy outlining key figures and shifting ensemble practices.
Di Frigyes Varasdy
Membro
Individuality and Uniformity in Brass Players
As international standards reshape brass playing, musical individuality risks giving way to imitation, leaving tradition, ensemble work and personal conviction at stake.
Di Hans-Joachim Drechsler
Yes or no? Beware!
Do we or do we not play transcriptions?
“Transcriptions: yes or no? Beware.” Roger Bobo challenges tubists to rethink repertoire, taste, and tradition in a bold call for musical judgment and artistic freedom.
Di Roger Bobo
Membro
Special Hungary
Brass Chamber Music in Hungary
Ancient horns, military signals and postwar ensembles meet in a Hungarian brass tradition shaped as much by education and composers as by performers.
Di Frigyes Varasdy
Gratuito
Women and brass: 3 Portraits
Barbara Stone, Betty Anderson, Kate Kaminga
Three British and Dutch conductors moved from brass band performance to leadership roles, confronting a scene still largely shaped by male traditions.
Di Markus S. Bach
Gratuito
Scraps of Thoughts and Memories concerning “Passages” for trumpet and strings
Between waiting and movement, Passages reimagines soloist and orchestra—inviting exploration, listening, and the acceptance of the unexpected.
Di Victor Fenigstein
Indeterminate instrumentation
A Way of Extending Instrumental Technic
Can technique go beyond notation? James Fulkerson explores new instrumental possibilities and argues that improvisation is key to expanding both technique and musical thinking.
Di James Fulkerson
Membro
Editorial
As music becomes increasingly industrialized, Jean-Pierre Mathez argues for restoring local musical communities where composers, performers and audiences shape a shared identity.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
Membro
Maurice Ravel and the new trombone
Dance-band trombonists reshaped orchestral expectations in the 1920s and 30s, leaving their mark on Ravel’s Boléro and a generation of players.
Di Michel Laplace
Gratuito
Interview with Miles Anderson
Jean-Pierre Mathez traces Miles Anderson’s path from early training to orchestral and freelance work, expanding on the tension between livelihood and artistic pursuit.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez
Can jazz performance be taught?
A profile of Charlie Shoemake
Di Thomas Stevens
Gratuito
Empire Brass Quintet
Portrait in brief
From New York to Boston, five brass players built a chamber music identity rooted in Ewald, early music and a string-quartet approach to ensemble sound.
Di Jean-Pierre Mathez