Accent On Trumpet - Ernie Royal

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...By Night 3. Any Major Dude Will Tell You 4. Barrytown 5. East St. Louis Toodle-Oo 6. Parker's Band 7. Through With Buzz 8. Pretzel Logic 9. With A Gun 10. Charlie Freak 11. Monkey In Your Soul Musicians: Walter Becker: bass, guitar Donald Fagen: lead and backing vocals, piano, electric piano Denny Dias: guitar Jeff "Skunk" Baxter: guitar Jim Hodder: backing vocals Studio musicians Ben Benay: guitar Wilton Felder: bass Victor Feldman: percussion, vibes, marimba Jim Gordon: drums Jimmie Haskell: arrangements and orchestration Plas Johnson: saxophone Lew McCreary: trombone Ollie Mitchell: trumpet David Paich: keyboards Dean Parks: guitar Jeff Porcaro: drums, percussion Michael Omartian: keyboards Chuck Rainey: bass Jerome Richardson: saxophone Tim Schmit: backing vocals Ernie Watts: saxophone... Read review

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Advantages: Wonderful transcriptions of JS Bach's majestic music; sensitive, tender, vivacious, effortless and fluid playing.
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...was taken from the BBC Radio 3’s webpages on the ‘New Generation Artists’ series: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classical/newgenerations/balsom.shtml Alison Balsom (trumpet) Nationality: British Places of study and teachers: Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Paris Conservatoire, graduating in 2001 with First Class Honours. Recent studies with Håkan Hardenberger. Prizes/Accolades: 1998 - concerto finalist in the BBC Young Musicians Competition and in 2000 won the prize for the 'Most Beautiful Sound' at the Maurice André International Trumpet Competition in Paris. Alison was the first ever brass player to be represented by the Young Concert Artists Trust London, 2001-4. Recent performances include: The premiere of a special commission by BBC Radio 3 and the Royal Philharmonic Society from Django Bates. Performances... Read review

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Advantages: Great performances of popular favourites and some rare gems
Disadvantages: Barely none, with perhaps slight issues with sound.

...", the recording of the Gothenburg Symphony under Neeme Järvi is one of the best I have heard (as are the other rhapsodies in the set from which this has been taken from), being rich, sonorous, and jubilant. This is followed by Leroy Anderson's comical "The Typewriter," one of the numerous light pieces that Anderson wrote in his life, and features the tapping of a typewriter to great effect. It's a perfect "pops" lollipop and provides endless hours of fun after drinking a bit of… ummm… happy beveriges. Johann Sebastian Bach is represented by two pieces. "Jesu bleibet meine Freude" is not exactly that exilarating; it is not far removed from the usual string orchestra arrangement it is often heard in, this performance only adding what sounds like 2-4 trumpets for providing some accents. Of more interest is the legendary conductor Leopold Stokowski... Read review

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