It is a very strange time to be a professional musician. Yes, I have always dreamed of being a big time studio musician, which means bein...

This is a cool story! It is also completely true, so I am going to "tamper" with the names a bit out of respect to all involved. This hap...

Let me open with a disclaimer. What follows are my ideas, feelings and opinions. You may have utterly different outlooks, feelings and id...

I am paraphrasing the famous saying of Rene DesCartes and drawing a different though parallel meaning from my title of this blog. First m...

I'm a little behind with my blogging, but this one has been fun to put together. Not too long ago, I was purging files and materials in m...

This blog is just my reminiscing about my experiences on Maynard Ferguson's band during my somewhat brief stint with him in 1981. Before ...

Recently I chimed in on a thread in a FB forum on the relative merits of busking. I followed along with the other comments and ideas star...

What follows are my personal OPINIONS - just my point of view. I have to open this blog with a disclaimer/confession. I am completely gui...

I wanted to put a provocative title on this one as this is a topic of some interest to me. When I watch and hear great bands that seem to...

Before I begin this shorter blog, I want to make it clear that this is what I choose to do and how I think about my work as a trumpeter. ...

I recently went on a trip up to Gabriola Island off the Vancouver, British Columbia coast to meet with my friend, Dave Harrison, the crea...

Well, as part of my trumpeter self-actualization project, I've been working on extreme upper register. By extreme, I mean above - way abo...

Recently, I've been reading Steve Wiest's arrangement of Besame Mucho with Chicago local big bands. It is a very tough tune to sight read...

This little blog post was triggered by a lengthy conversation with a reader of my blogs and follower of my videos after he read a text bo...

I am gradually recording music that I love and would love to play live someday with an orchestra, but will not likely every have the oppo...

It has been quite a while since I've written a blog. I've been busy with redoing my big band library, arranging for musicians to play my ...

Well, folks, I have NOT blogged in quite a while. I have been VERY busy redoing my big band library and putting together a new performan...

Back in August, Brett Dean's Shout Section Big Band went into the studio for two grueling long hour recording sessions to produce what I ...

Sometimes, in order to sort out a very complex system, we have to use some simpler physical models and extrapolate from them to get a pic...

I have another blog about pedals. Check the archives. This one is just a short post about the fingerings I use because I have changed the...