Brass Bulletin No. 41

Jean-Pierre Mathez

When careers pause and certainty fades, real progress begins in private, where discipline, friendship and chamber music reshape what it means to be a musician.

Rudolf Lewy

Between blind fidelity and reckless modernisation, instrument substitutions force performers to decide when the score’s wording serves—or betrays—the music.

Louis Davidson

Precision often begins with doing less, not more—a principle Louis Davidson places at the heart of trumpet playing with surprising practical consequences.

Julius Watkins

Jeffrey Agrell

A pioneering career, landmark recordings and collaborations with jazz legends gave the French horn a place it had never occupied before.

Plagiarism, Photocopying

Jean-Pierre Mathez

Long before digital piracy, publishers and performers were already confronting plagiarism, photocopying and blurred artistic ownership across the brass world.

Philippe-Henri Dejonker, Francis Orval, R. Miller, R. Sneppe

A horn note may begin before it is heard, as subtle vocal-fold oscillations appear to prepare the airflow that the lips will ultimately shape.

Sergej Gorovoj

What if tone production depended less on instinct than on understanding how the instrument, the lips and the air function as one interconnected system?

Boyde Hood

Behind the polished sound of Los Angeles studio trumpet playing stood remarkably similar training, disciplined routines, and a craft shaped by constant stylistic demands.