Word: trumpet
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...conversation with has trumpet-playing friend Jerold S. Karden '75, Jones retlected on his career as a composer arranger-producer in the record and movie score business...
After his time at the Berkeley School of Music, he joined Lionel Hampton's big-band in New York. "It was like wonderland," Jones said. Jones told the audience that he and his friends often appeared at the back doors of big-name concerts with their leather trumpet cases in hand, to get in free...
...Today, a generation raised in the shadows of the Cold War assumes new responsibilities in a world warmed by the sunshine of freedom but threatened still by ancient hatreds and new plagues," Clinton said. Kennedy's "now the trumpet summons us again"echoed in Clinton's "We have heard the trumpets.We have changed the guard...
...horn. It was as much a trademark as Armstrong's handkerchief. Story goes that in 1953, Dizzy returned to a recording session and found that his trumpet had been sat upon, or fallen upon, or in some way molested. It was bent into a near-perfect 45 degrees angle. He played it anyway and liked what he heard; he used to say he could hear himself better. And that was pretty much the way he was heard, too, from then...
...though. The music flowed from a kind of high spirit, a purposeful passion that the horn symbolized and the silliness deflected. There was nothing slight or offhand about the way he played, or how he lived. Born in South Carolina in 1917, he began to teach himself trombone and trumpet two years after his father -- a bricklayer by trade and a weekend bandleader by calling -- had passed on; before he left his teens he was playing professionally with the Frankie Fairfax band and had got himself his nickname...