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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I have done several blogs about how a trumpet works and I have quite a few videos about it as well. As a result of communications via...

This blog will be largely video. I'll draft a few notes to elaborate on what I say in the video. Also, near the end of the blog I have a...

THIS post might be a little controversial, but I assure you, it is based in physics and collected data, data collected by the late great...

What follows are some notes I wrote for Jordan Hoffman during a recent FB PM exchange. I did some edits for the blog and I put them in...

This is a very short mini blog I've been meaning to share for a few weeks now. In the mid summer, I asked Dave Harrison to redesign my...

The other night I got into an intense discussion about mouthpiece gap and acoustic impedance just before a gig with Jeff Hedberg and C11...

I have been a professional musician for 38 years, and I'm NOT retiring any time too soon. I am having WAY too much fun. Things are most...