Brass Bulletin No. 51

Jean-Pierre Mathez

A museum, a factory, a familiar instrument: Jean-Pierre Mathez turns ordinary encounters with brass into a reflection on the bond between player and voice.

Edouard Gros

A teenage double bassist in 1920s Lausanne turns family resistance, scout orchestras and hard-earned engagements into the beginnings of a professional life.

A social portrait of the British brass player

Thomas Aitken

Four British brass players confront a profession transformed by orchestras, freelance work, social prejudice and the shrinking certainties of musical life.

A virtuoso's career

Jean-Pierre Mathez

A career built on sound, memory and the natural horn shows how Hermann Baumann helped redefine what a horn soloist could be on the international stage.

The classical Armstrong period (1927-1945)

Michel Laplace

Jazz trombone changed rapidly between 1927 and 1945, as Armstrong’s influence, big-band playing and new techniques transformed both its language and sound.

Schilke Music Products, Inc. Chicago

Stephan Suter

In a Chicago workshop, traditional handwork meets new bell-making methods, while Renold Schilke’s uncompromising standards shape an unusual company culture.

C.G. Conn Ltd.

Stephan Suter

Jean-Pierre Mathez

Discovery of unpublished trumpet studies

Anatoly Selianin

Basic techniques

Friedemann Immer