Phreaky Phriday: In The Mood

There comes a time, in every musicians life, when the lead trumpet player in your big band can’t make the gig, and he sends in a sub. The sub is always, always, this guy.

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Take that, Maynard!

13 Responses to “Phreaky Phriday: In The Mood”


  1. 1 Josiah Mory

    Aww, lame, it says that there is an error opening the file.

  2. 2 michael lee

    fixed. Sorry about that.

  3. 3 Bobby

    THANK YOU for fixing that… (wipes a tear)

  4. 4 Sharolyn

    Oh my gosh… LOL! I am tearing as well.
    I am imagining this trumpeter taking himself very seriously, like Will Ferrell on jazz flute in “Anchorman”. :)

  5. 5 Morphea

    Holy freakin’ cats. Where did you get this? Is there a story? [hyperventilates] OMG, is there video? Please, god, let there be video.

  6. 6 Nick

    Ok, enlighten me professional musicians. Was that somebody trying to be a hot-shot, or somebody who is just not very good at their instrument practicing with a tape? Maybe both?

  7. 7 harmonicminer

    So Mike, how did you sneak the mike into my practice room?

  8. 8 Daniel

    DUDE–that is SOOOO awful…I love it.

  9. 9 michael lee

    [quote comment="78704"]Ok, enlighten me professional musicians. Was that somebody trying to be a hot-shot, or somebody who is just not very good at their instrument practicing with a tape? Maybe both?[/quote]

    No clue. Somebody just emailed it to me, so I don’t know the back story. My guess is that it’s a good player imitating a really, really annoying player. Midway through, you can hear somebody laughing.

    I think he’s playing against the original recording.

  10. 10 Paul

    This sounds like the squeaks you get when you let the air out of a balloon really slowly. Maybe someone could duplicate this for YouTube, using that precision instrument.

  11. 11 James

    I’m pretty sure I played with that guy in high school…. He’s improved a lot since then apparently….

  12. 12 Sharolyn's Husband

    Possibly the same trumpet player, but using Mahler 2 instead. Funny in a slightly different way.

    http://www.inlex.net/feck/mahler.mp3

  13. 13 michael lee

    Everything is better with “jazzy” phrasing!

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