Word: trumpeting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City, each rolled out a new album. Both bands have toured the ska circuit for several years and are just now starting to gain the recognition given to such bands as The Toasters, The Skatalites and The Scofflaws. Each is a seven piece band utilizing the trumpet and saxophone in the horn section. The Pietasters further take on a trombone in their horn section while the Slackers add a keyboard as their seventh piece...
Like the Pietasters horn section, the Slackers trumpet and saxophone lay down a steady beat and background ska tone. While shining on occasional solos, the musicianship of the Slackers is most apparent on a pair of superb instrumentals, "Cooking for Tommy" and "Tin Tin Deo," that mark the album's two opposite musical poles. "Cooking for Tommy" is the opening number on Redlight and is described by the band as "a major key, Latin-goes-ska number" that showcases the band's horns. "Tin Tin Deo," with guest percussionist Larry McDonald, exhibits the significant Jamaican reggae influence on the band...
After Clinton's annual physical at Bethesda Naval Hospital, White House spokesman Mike McCurry announced the presidential ear trumpet. "It's called high-frequency audio loss, and it's a boomer malady," McCurry said. "Helicopters probably made it worse for Clinton, but loud music does it to most of us." Clinton, of course, actually had horns blowing directly at him during his years in the school band. He should have practiced safe...
...albums range from wildly complex jazz to spaced-out noodling to bubbling funk, Miles' trumpet remains the sole constant. The beautiful melodies, brilliant timing and phrasing that his fans loved never goes away, it's just in a changed context. On the albums, it is the horn that stays the same--a steady reminder that Miles was not going to leave anything he'd learned behind...
...band has been together for a long enough time that its members are now able to concentrate on the finer details of their respective instruments and the way they fit together within the group. Je Widenhouse, the Zippers' trumpet player, cited Princess Leia's theme from Star Wars as his personal inspiration, saying "I'm all about it, man-there are quotes from that song on my trumpet every day, in everything I play." Stu described his musical influences as "the people I play with and listen to," and Widenhouse added a few of his more personal inspirations as well...