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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…
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…
starts talking about changing mouthpieces mid-song, or using a piccolo trumpet to play the last two lines of a big band chart 😀