a little bit more: big-band+orch. pops concert

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...so this is me (when the camera moves around) covering the 4th 'bone book with the F cimbasso.

This is NOT me singing a double high G-flat and NOR is it me playing one on the trumpet.

The music was sorta goofed up. I didn't get this tune until the concert. Fortunately, it was a "read"...

...and just to demonstrate that the concert was varied...a little bit of Broadway, some Vegas, some jazz, some ballads, some Latin, and some vintage pop/rock.
Two or three of the arrangements switched back-and-forth between Latin and swing (tempo/time remaining the same), which was fun.

There were two long rehearsals, but - so much chatting was going on - that I'm sure we really didn't even play all the way through most of the tunes.

cimbasso issue:
I can deal with straight/cup/even clip-on bucket, and even doo-gag-doo-wah/doogah-doo-wah/doo-gah-dowwww plunger-mute licks, but "IN HAT" (sticking the bell into the music stand) is HARD, because of the floor pegs: When I go FORWARD, the mouthpiece goes UP.

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short clip of a run-though of "Skylark"

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Something I would have never expected to see in a jazz band.

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Something I would have never expected to see in a jazz band.
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From now on, I promise to ONLY use it to play Verdi opera overtures/arias/etc., because it's EXACTLY THE SAME THING that Verdi specified for performing those overtures.

I was driving steel into the opposite wall with the low range of that thing, but - not being mic'ed - it sounded "just about right"...except the bari sax player was getting quite a dose of it.

The two trumpet players on the right are the orchestra's regular 1st two trumpet players.
The band sent two trumpets, one trombone, four reeds, drummer, bass, piano, and singer...I'm thinking one more guy...the sound man may (??) have been the one who came out and played sousaphone on the NOLA second encore. The double reeds/saxophone teacher at UT Martin (who usually plays second oboe or EH) played second tenor and bass clarinet.

The new mouthpiece
( viewtopic.php?t=5850 )
REALLY helped out.
Quite a bit was above the staff, and one of the ballads had a couple "high,-had-it-been-tuba" of unison "lyrical" lines for the trombones.
- one started around G-flat in the staff and went up to the next G-flat and then back down (cup mute).
- the next one started on that really high G-flat and worked its way back down (no mute).

This was NOT us, but we played these charts (except WITH strings/oboes/horns/etc:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ziX3U_ajzs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIDogjaHsKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKUbfC6Utuw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dasmlheW6xU