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The Dallas Brass is pleased to announce an opening for Drum Set/Percussion. The position calls for proficiency on Drum Set, orchestral percussion and mallets. The program spans a wide variety of styles including jazz/big band, early dixieland, classical, broadway, and film music. The group tours approx. 150 days per year. Those interested should contact Mike Levine, Dallas Brass director, at mike@dallasbrass.com. For more information on the group and their recordings, check out the Dallas Brass website.

There is a compilation DVD (as well as an audio CD) available from the DCI store. It includes all the shows from 1985-1993. It's really a great set.

from DCI website: 1 The Cadets 99.150 2 The Cavaliers 97.625 3 Phantom Regiment 96.825 4 Blue Devils 95.250 5 Bluecoats 94.450 6 Madison Scouts 92.625 7 Carolina Crown 90.725 8 Santa Clara Vanguard 88.650 9 Boston Crusaders 88.400 10 Blue Knights 88.225 11 Glassmen 87.700 12 Spirit from JSU 86.075

You can find them here: http://animenation.com/cds-anime-music-cowboy-bebop.html The prices are high due to being imports. You can often find them used (I have found several at Half Priced Books, a chain in the southwest).

I just need one ticket for Friday evening semis. PM me if you have one.

My preference (as a writer) is to hear the normal lead part NAILED. Nothing fancy, not a lot of "gee, think how good this would sound up an octave" (bass trombonists who say "...down an octave" are just as guilty!). My favorite trumpet players are those who can absolutely nail the part, which makes sense with the other parts. One of my absolutely favorite players out there is Jerry Hey, for that reason. If you listen to his playing on the following cuts you will hear phrase after phrase of amazing lead playing, with an occasionly zinger, but those are few and far between, which is why they're special when he does play them. On Dave Weckl's "Master Plan" CD: Tower of Inspiration Festical de Ritmo On Chaka Khan's "What Cha Gonna Do For Me" CD: We Can Work it Out I Know You, I Love You (<---amazing in the chorus phrases) And Jerry, Chuck Findley and Gary Grant pretty much give a clinic on Al Jarreau's "Jarreau" CD, particularly: Boogie Down Step by Step Save Me Black and Blues Love is Waiting and Jarreau's "High Crime": Imagination High Crime (One amazing thing to hear on the Jarreau CDs is to turn up the volume just as each cut is ending--some of the most amazing playing is as the board fade is happening. Make sure to turn the volume back down before the next cut starts!). In live playing some of the most impressive playing is that which shows the same restraint and taste that goes into recording; for some reason we can as players let our emotions get the best of us during live performance (and the crowd may be dazzled), and yet listening to a recording the next morning we often don't end up being that impressed with what we did the night before. :) <steps down off of soapbox> john

Tommy Loy. What an amazing musician. I live in the Dallas area and had the opportunity to hear Tommy play jazz and dixieland with various groups over the years. Even as he was nearing 70 years old his chops never waned. He died a couple of years ago. Here is a link to an archive of the news piece. http://ml.islandnet.com/pipermail/dixielan...ber/004276.html What a classy guy. We all loved him and miss him.

I remember that guy. He was a trumpet player at UW-Parkside, if I remember correctly. Another guy from those years was in Garfield Cadets, ca. 74-75; I don't remember his name, but he was a big lad, and his nickname was "chops" - he even had a practice t-shirt under his uni with CHOPS on the back. I remember him being able to play effortlessly. Now that I think about it, his nickname might have been "lips" or "hot lips". (Failed 70s memory.)

Bass Trombone is my first instrument, I play the following: Bass Trombone: Bach 50B3 custom Tenor Trombone: King 3B Euphonium: Yamaha YEP-321 Tuba: Yamaha YEB-621S Eb (silver) Valve Trombone: Blessing Marching Trombone (jazz stuff) (also unofficially, lots of percussion instruments, several synths, a Fender 5-string Jazz Bass, etc.) john p.s. I do love the Yamaha 613H Bass Trombone for more commercial and recording stuff, and may pick one up this year.

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