Phreaky Phriday: In The Mood

Apr 27 2007

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.

InTheMood-LeadTrpt3.mp3

Take that, Maynard!

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13 responses so far

  1. Josiah Mory
    on 27 Apr 2007 at 1:43 am

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

  2. michael lee
    on 27 Apr 2007 at 9:14 am

    fixed. Sorry about that.

  3. Bobby
    on 27 Apr 2007 at 9:24 am

    THANK YOU for fixing that… (wipes a tear)

  4. Sharolyn
    on 27 Apr 2007 at 9:33 am

    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. Morphea
    on 27 Apr 2007 at 11:39 am

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

  6. Nick
    on 27 Apr 2007 at 11:45 am

    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. harmonicminer
    on 27 Apr 2007 at 11:47 am

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

  8. Daniel
    on 27 Apr 2007 at 4:33 pm

    DUDE–that is SOOOO awful…I love it.

  9. michael lee
    on 27 Apr 2007 at 5:38 pm

    [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. Paul
    on 27 Apr 2007 at 10:57 pm

    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. James
    on 28 Apr 2007 at 1:20 am

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

  12. Sharolyn's Husband
    on 10 Feb 2008 at 2:13 pm

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

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

  13. michael lee
    on 10 Feb 2008 at 9:18 pm

    Everything is better with “jazzy” phrasing!

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