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When You Die, the Horn Wins
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How to play Pick Up The Pieces by Average White Band (on the trumpet)
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Pick Up The Pieces by Average White Band is a frequently requested funk tune that you can easily add to your trumpet repertoire. This is a well known recording so the trumpet part should match what can be heard there unless your band is working an arrangement that specifically calls for something different (rarely the…
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Who was Dolly Jones?
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Dolly Jones in 1938 Dolly Jones, also known on screen and stage as both Doli Armenra and Dolly Hutchinson, was the first women to perform trumpet on a jazz recording. That session took place in 1926 when Jones appeared as a member of Albert Wynn’s Gut Bucket Five. Jones inherited the musical gifts of both…
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What instruments are in the brass family?
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Although the earliest versions of these instruments are known to have been made of wood, tusks, animal horns or shells, today’s modern instruments are made entirely of brass. In summary, brass instruments are basically very long pipes that have been curved and twisted into different shapes to make them easier to hold and play. Brass…