Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
Mahler wrote it as the third movement of his Fourth Symphony. I mean the fourth movement of his First Symphony. We play it third. The trumpet solo will be played by our solo trumpet player. It's named 'Blumine,' which has something to do with flowers.
I was in the band when I was a kid, I played the trumpet.
The first beat that I ever made that I thought was actually worth a damn was called 'Toilet Paper Nostrils,' and I made it when I had a cold. I had the worst cold ever. And I had toilet-paper nostrils making music, but it was really reflective of how I felt. It was a really sad trumpet sound.
The radio is playing jazz, and I listen to the sound of the trumpet playing a solo until I become that sound.
On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.
My father was incredible on trumpet and played with the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie.
Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me - it was actually my first instrument.
As time passed on, got to hear some players who were straight up funky, not just jazz. Nat Adderley, for instance - he's a funky trumpet player, so he was my man.
The trumpet was not a lyrical singing instrument.
