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!
Aww, lame, it says that there is an error opening the file.
fixed. Sorry about that.
THANK YOU for fixing that… (wipes a tear)
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”. :)
Holy freakin’ cats. Where did you get this? Is there a story? [hyperventilates] OMG, is there video? Please, god, let there be video.
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?
So Mike, how did you sneak the mike into my practice room?
DUDE–that is SOOOO awful…I love it.
[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.
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.
I’m pretty sure I played with that guy in high school…. He’s improved a lot since then apparently….
Possibly the same trumpet player, but using Mahler 2 instead. Funny in a slightly different way.
http://www.inlex.net/feck/mahler.mp3
Everything is better with “jazzy” phrasing!