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Monday, March 1, 2010

When Did You Last Think of Flugelhorns?

"Somewhere Over the Rainbow ballad - Jazz Flugelhorn Ed Trujillo"

edcontact, YouTube (July 07, 2008)
video, 2:01

"If you play trumpet check out http://www.contactplus.com/... Background tracks and music at: http://www.sheetmusicplus.c... I play Over the Rainbow by Harold Arlen, Words by E.Y. Harburg on...."

Don't let the "jazz" thing scare you: this guy's good.

If you do know a little about jazz: sorry about that, but once in a while you could run into someone who thinks "jazz" and "noisy" mean the same thing.

That quote from the "info" section tells you that this is a commercial post.

Again, don't let that scare you.

The audio quality is pretty good - although I'd have preferred to hear the beginning and end of what the musician played.

Oh, well: can't have everything.

"Flugelhorn?" It's "a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider bore". (Princeton's WordNet)

There's a redolent play on words lurking there, but the Lemming has already committed one today.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Brian,

    That's me playing. Thanks for posting on your blog. I'm an amateur trumpet/flugelhorn player and do iphone software for my day job.

    Before the solo is a count-in and after doesn't appear on the video as I stopped playing and thought it would be boring to watch me put the horn down.


    Ed

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  2. Ed,

    Thanks for your comment(s). It's good to hear from you.

    Pacing is important in videos - I'd say that you made a good choice for where to end this one.

    For some reason, three comments from you appeared: two at 2:30 local time, the third two minutes later. The first two were identical - and the third repeated the first one's text, with another paragraph. Just explaining why you started with three, and now have just one here.)

    Best wishes on your music: Nice to have a day job, isn't it?

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