[Dixielandjazz] [Fwd: For Trumpet Players]

Steve Barbone barbonestreet at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 4 22:29:17 PDT 2004



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From: Steve Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
Subject: For Trumpet Players
To: Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>



For all you trumpet guys; be advised that Joe Urso's "The Upper 
Register" has been reprinted for a third time and is now available again.

The forward is by Bobby Shaw and this limited edition is devoted to 200 
trumpet players from the 1930s through the 1990s. It has 
bios/discographies on "lead trumpeters", "hi note specialists", "strong 
trumpet sections" and the "extreme upper register trumpet legends".

Complete with anecdotes, funny happenings, sad stories etc. Among those 
highlighted are Conrad Gozzo, Bud Brisbeis, Bill Chase, Maynard 
Ferguson, Arturo Sandoval, Jon Faddis, Al,Porcino, Cat Anderson, Dave 
Stahl, Doc Severinson, Dizzy Gillespie, Lew Soloff, Walt Johnson, Alan 
Wise, Allan Vizzutti, Bobby Shew, Roger Ingram,Chuck Findlay, Jim 
Manley, some top British and European trumpeters and some underated 
blowers past and present including Carl Saunders.

Obviously not strictly OKOM, however you trumpet guys should know a few 
of them.

Also includes 100 photos, some rare, of major big band trumpet guys from 
the Woody Herman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Charlie Barnett, Maynard 
Ferguson and other groups.

Soft cover, 168 pages 81/2 x 11. Priority mail pouch to USA and Global.

Postpaid in US $25, elsewhere in world $30 (check or noney order US funds)
Checks payable to Joe Urso. No credit cards accepted.

Joe Urso
331 Wycoff Way West
East Brunswick, NJ 08816
USA

More info?

Telephone & Fax 732-238-0073

I have no financial interest in this book. Just passing it along for 
your interest.

Cheers,
Steve Barbone




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