TrumpetBoy

I’m back in New York on holiday, on my 2 weeks off from Tour. The difference is, as you may have read before, that I have insurance money to burn on CDs!! Yesterday afternoon, I headed down to J&R Music to make a start. As ever, this great record shop didn’t let me down. They [...]

I was saddened to learn from a mutual friend today, that the great Trumpet player Benny Bailey passed away, at home in his Amsterdam apartment, on April 14th 2005. He was 79.
Benny was one of the American bebop generation who came to Europe in the 1950s. He along with Art Farmer, settled on this side [...]

In response to several requests from friends and colleagues, I’ve finally got round to producing a downloadable version of the Trumpet warm-up routine that I use. It’s available to download here. It is my development of the routine from the excellent “Allen Vizzutti Trumpet Method, Book 1 (Technical Studies)” (ISBN: 0739019414) and also includes some [...]

I’m writing this at the end of a very long day! I travelled back from Berlin to Leeds (via Newcastle!) to attend a meeting with an Insurance Claims Investigator.
A few weeks ago, while I was in Vienna, my house was burgled. It was the burglars 3rd attempt in as many weeks and the first time [...]

Thought I’d mention a few things that I’ve come across on the Web during the last couple of days.
First up, I was pleased to notice that my friend and teacher Brian Lynch has had his website redesigned. The old site has been kicking around for a number of years and was, in fact, one of [...]