Entry #1: Brassmen's Holiday
Hello everyone! My name is Jacob White and I am a first year DMA student in Horn Performance and Pedagogy at the University of Iowa. As part of the Advanced Brass Ensemble Literature course, I am making a blog to recap daily discussions and listening. But no blog would be complete without a perfect theme to go along with, yes? For my blog, I am entitling it "Big Fat Brass" after Billy's May album of the same name. This album is a gem, some jazz standards, some originals, and a whole lot of (big fat) brass playing written for brass and percussion ensemble. Just looking at the horn personnel on the album... Vince De Rosa and James Decker? Talk about Hollywood heavy weights. Album Tracks and Information: Big Fat Brass Unfortunately, many of these arrangements have been lost. From what I was told, many (or perhaps all) the arrangements were lost in a studio warehouse fire. In 2008, there was a fire at Universal Studios ...