I don’t ever want to have a conversation ever again where it’s like. . . we really have to hire at least one woman. No! There’s so many capable and ready women.
Find what you love doing and then get to grinding. And find the fun and love in that grinding.
World domination for brass is my goal within 10 years.
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!
