To play with the great Steve Witser and Joe Alessi that summer in Colorado was pretty special.
When you communicate. . . make it easy for someone to call you for a gig.
We (Lucerne Festival Orchestra) did Mahler 3 with Boulez . . . it was off the charts!
Anybody who plays or teaches trombone at the Eastman School of Music stands on Emory Remington’s shoulders.
Dizzy once told me he liked the way I played. . . I said could you write that down?!
Seeing live music is an integral part of the way we internalize the process of playing music.
I remember playing Studio 54 on New Year’s Eve in 1985. You get your freak on in a place like that!
Soloing in front of a thousand people at the Monterey Jazz Festival . . . are you kidding me? On the French horn??
We played Symphony Hall in Kawasaki and there were 1,100 or 1,200 people there to see a trombone quartet. It was an amazing experience!
To hear Clifford Brown two years after you start playing the trumpet in Montana was pretty eye opening . . . to say the least!
