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The Brubeck Brass has been fortunate to enjoy some of the finest trumpet playing anywhere! So many performances were highlights, but one memorable performance was when only the leader of a famous brass group could travel due to COVID-19 restrictions, and the Brubeck Brass substituted for the rest of the group with but one rehearsal. The leader exclaimed after the concert that the Brubeck Brass performance equaled his regular group!

CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDER

As some of our wonderful trumpet players leave and have recently left South Florida, we would like to Congratulate them, BRAVO to all!

Luca Farina has bee appointed principal trumpet of the Sarasota Orchestra. Luca has played wonderful classical music and jazz for our group, and is one of the most versatile trumpet players of high quality I have had the fortune to have known. Luca just finished a tenure as Principal Trumpet and other parts at The New World Symphony in Miami Beach Florida. He is also an alumnus of Colburn where he studied with Jim Wilt. We wish Luca well, and will ALL miss him.

Kevin Carabel has just won the Principal Trumpet chair with the Jacksonville Symphony. He is a home grown talent and studied trumpet with Craig Morris, Marc Reese and Brian Neal at the University of Miami, Lynn Conservatory and Kendal Campus MDC. Kevin produces one of the most enormous and beautiful sounds I have heard on trumpet and has been a key player in many of our church performances, and the most frequent trumpeter in the Brubeck Brass. Congratulations Kevin, you will be missed by all and we wish you the best!

Federico Montes had accepted a one year section trumpet position with the Florida Orchestra in Tampa and will now become Associate Principal Trumpet in The Omaha Symphony; and he is a Yamaha performing artist! He studied at the University of Tampa, The Juilliard School and at the University of Miami (Hey I am starting to notice a trend here….). Federico manages many of the aspects of a music career with aplomb, and no one would be surprised if we hear a great deal more about him on the future. Federico strikes on as an All-American boy who is very respectful and kind. Without a doubt, he is the best-dressed musician I know. Thank you Federico; we will miss you!

Alex Razamanov has been exceptional and really produces a core sound that carries extremely well. He is able to change styles on a dime, and was really a delight in both orchestral and chamber music setting. Alex was a student of Marc Reese at Lynn and also Craig Morris at UM. He has just accepted a scholarship at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. When we suspected he was from Russia, we just hired him even more often! Just our way of making up for what appears to be the shameful ignorance of the Metropolitan Opera….

Aaron Ney recently accepted a position in one of the top Washington D.C. Military Bands, and was the most beloved trumpet player by our audiences. Aaron is humble, kind and gracious. He is a true story-teller of sound, and his accuracy and breadth of expression was incredible! YOU are missed Aaron!

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL AND WOW!!!! What a privilege! Audiences, do not be alarmed-jiust wait until you hear our new crop of trumpet players!!!

c. 2022 David William Brubeck All Rights Reserved

This is a tremendous honor, and I am humbled and grateful. There are a great number of fine trombonists whose projects and stories could have easily filled these pages.

While I had the opportunity to thank several guitarists and trombone teachers in the article, I would like to add that I am weak and He is strong. I am thankful to God for the opportunities he has given me. My parents and family are an amazing blessing and support in every way.

It has also brought to mind some of my big band leaders.

Some of my jazz band directors have really been on my mind: James Boitos at Illinois State University conducted the finest repertoire I have ever played in any big band, such as “The Things Are Coming” & “The Things Are Here” (Dizzy), and “The Shoes of The Fisherman’s Wife Are Some Jive-Ass Slippers” & “Don’t Be Afraid, The Clown’s Afraid, Too!”(Mingus) among others. He is a wonderful musician, teacher and man, whose improvisation class was centered around LISTENING to great albums and really turning on his students to jazz in all of its breadth and depth. Jim was the one who advised me to audition for Northwestern! He brought Dizzy to play with our band-WOW!

Bob Thommes was my first jazz band director and I was with him for six years in Junior High School and High School. He loves jazz more than any bassoonist I have ever met, and I was eventually able to forgive him for selecting to attend the University of Illinois, after all he was only 18 at the time!

Don Owens of Northwestern University is the finest teacher from the podium I have ever seen, and Whit Sidener was an under-appreciated master. Not everyone can conduct the finest young jazz musicians in the world, who are coming in and out of the Bands of Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Paul Anka & Maynard Ferguson AND COMMAND THEIR RESPECT.

Thanks to the great Disney All-American Bands Bob Raddock, Rick Goodstein, Art Bartner & the amazing artists they brought in to play with our bands.

In Chicago, I played some for Mayo Tiana but in BEAUTIFUL MIAMI, I had a gig with The Melton Mustafa and Jesse Jones Jr. Big Band my first night in town, and spent many joyful years playing for them, Mike Lewis, Peter Graves and Larry Elgart. Not to mention the masterful mentorship of Miami Jazz Trumpet and Big Band Leader & Legend, John Georgini.

I was also privileged to play with many amazing student trombone sections at Illinois State University, Northwestern University, The University of Miami, Disney & Birch Creek Music Academy. I think that the best was at Illinois State University, with Bill Aurand, Paul Browne, Mark Cooper & Tom Browne. (Honorary-Dave Gross!)

Thanks to all!! Wanted to share this with you!!!

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Please enjoy this wonderful composition. We at davidbrubeck.com look forward to reading a dissertation some day on “The Compositions for Trombone of Charles J. Campbell”.

Sorry for the delay with the solo part-it should have been published first. Oh well, better late than never!

Memory fails us! We do not remember if either Todd Murphy, for whom the piece was written, or David Brubeck premiered this composition. It certainly looks practiced.

Notes for bass trombonists:

‘T’ is David Brubeck’s indication for F-Attachment alone

‘F’ is David brubeck’s indication for Gb-attachment alone

When these two symbols overlap, it indicates the activation of both ‘F’ and ‘Gb’ independent valves, resulting in ‘D’.

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This early recording of this song by the fabulous Duke Ellington Orchestra is one of the smoothest!

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Lots of great soloists! Billie is AMAZING! Unique and at the same time, one of the guys. It’s just that her guys are some of the best soloists in the world!

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Three published world premiere recordings for bass trombone? Cool! All the parts, (free!), for a ground breaking trombone quartet featuring bass trombone PLUS a recording? Unbelievable! But wait, there is more….How about FREE music for a four movement bass trombone solo with Woodwind Quintet Accompaniment? As “The Great One” might have once said in Miami Beach….AND AWAY WE GO…..

In a certain sense, outside of jazz, there have been very few (if any), brass soloists who have risen to the level of the great piano, violin and cello soloists of classical music. An exception is Maurice Andre, and his successful recordings and appearances before major orchestras. While a handful or two of wonderful euphonium and tuba soloists have achieved similar result in front of wind ensembles, it is really Rolf Smedvig, of the Empire Brass, who made an alternate path as a brass soloist, this time accompanied by brass quintet. In this achievement, Smedvig is unsurpassed.

The path he made clear, was also embraced by Nelson Riddle’s Composition for George Roberts featuring bass trombone in a brass quintet setting.

Another guide stone are these works by Charles J. Campbell. The bass trombone is featured in three different chamber setting: a trombone quartet, in solo with woodwind quintet and in solo with string quartet.

While this piece was written with Todd Murphy in mind, and the other two with me in mind, the subtext is clear: Dave Taylor had elevated the world of the bass trombone soloist in classical music to a nearly unprecedented level. Perhaps he would even consider these…

www.davidbrubeck.com is pleased to present the flute, French horn and bassoon parts for this work. More to come! As we prepare the oboe, clarinet and solo bass trombone parts as well. It is unknown if this work has yet to be premiered. Please contact me if you are interested in doing so.

Enjoy!!!

This Publication Marks more than 30 compositions made available on davidbrubeck.com by Dr. Charles Campbell. There are more of his great works to come, as we shift the focus of davidbrubeck.com towards a new musical project that we hope to announce in the coming days. Thanks to Dr. Charles Campbell, his widow, Eilleen Campbell and the entire Campbell family for their generosity. Best wishes in 2022!

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