Howard Johnson

[RenoDoc]

Good to hear! Appreciative of good news these days!

[RenoDoc]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjo1TVKaFmU

Any sheet music for that one? It'd be fun to do a duet with a guitar

[Casca Grossa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjo1TVKaFmU

Any sheet music for that one? It'd be fun to do a duet with a guitar

I don't know about sheet music but I'm sure you can find a version somewhere. He sounds really great on that performance. Great sound and very nice bass line.

[martyneilan]

Authentic. I love the singing and playing, and the enthusiastic singing of the kids. You would never get that on a kids show today - everything is overdubbed, pitch corrected, and sounds artificial. This is genuine.

[pjv]

Once upon a time...
I've never been into getting a selfie with an icon, but I couldn't pas this one up!
2005 in Canada.

[Tubajug]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjo1TVKaFmU

You beat me to it! I was going to post it. It's a great one!

I love that one!

[LeMark]

RIP HOJO

[bloke]

I never met him, but tremendously enjoyed him.

It's been two and a half months since the first announcement.
I sincerely hope that there wasn't much suffering - and that things were in place to offer Mr. Johnson relief from any pain, during that time.

[The Big Ben]

When I think of HoJo, for some reason, I think of this clip

You see him back there?

https://youtu.be/FYbavuReVF4

...back when humor was funny...

Hey York boy...
Is that bass sax a Conn or a Buescher?

And I believe the guy who blew the tenor solo from inside the sarcophagus is the tenor man from the Blues Brothers, Blue Lou Marini.

[UncleBeer]

Saddened. He was a great influence on me.

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[RenoDoc]

RIP Mr. Johnson and thank you for your music over the years. The trumpets in heaven now sound better with you playing your Mahillion.

[Jim Williams]

I first crossed paths with Howard in 1969 through Walter Sear ( I played tuba then). Even though I was a green kid fresh out of high school, he treated me with great amounts of encouragement, invited me to a few rehearsals, and allowed me to attend a Gil Evans recording session. When I went off to college, I pretty much lost contact with him except for an occasional encounter at a TUBA event. The last time I saw him (IIRC, memory fails me sometimes) was at the University of Cincinnati, when Harvey Phillips was inducted into the Classical Music Hall of Fame and/or there was some kind of TUBA/ITEC thing. He remembered me and we spent a few minutes getting caught up until he was called away.

His treatment of me in '69 left a real impression on me, and I made sure I maintained that attitude of encouraging eager learners in both of my lives as a euphonium player/teacher and a Professor of Finance.

[Tubaryan12]

I am so glad I had the opportunity to see him perform. Funniest line from the concert : I've been carrying around all these heavy instrumuments for years and you guys want to hear me play this penny whistle.

RIP.

[Shawn]

I never met him, but tremendously enjoyed him.

It's been two and a half months since the first announcement.
I sincerely hope that there wasn't much suffering - and that things were in place to offer Mr. Johnson relief from any pain, during that time.

Agreed on every count. RIP.

[hup_d_dup]

A very extensive and informative obituary was printed in the NY Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/arts ... Position=1

Hup