I stuck it up on yesterdays "new" posts (b&w) - a wedding reception...I was subbing with these "younger guys" over in Little Rock at a wedding reception at a hotel about three years ago...That's my old '58 Besson comp. E-flat, with an auxiliary "Sterling" 19-inch bell -fitted with a Besson collar.
What I like is that someone (a web designer acquaintance) grabbed the picture, PARTIALLY colorized it, and stuck it underneath the re-shared original as a "reply".
I don't normally work with those guys, but we were just playing "a bunch of old songs".
If you grew up when I did, there were "old fogey" AM radio stations that (musically) catered to middle-aged to old people, and - if your parents ran the radio when you rode in the back seat - you know most of the "old tunes" (without every having played them)...OTHER THAN that REALLY OLD stuff from the '20's (which most people - other than those who were involved in the late-40's through mid-60's "dixieland revival" - simply had to learn). As many of those to whom those stations catered were dying off in the 1980's, a whole bunch of those stations changed their format to "talk" around that time.
These are the same guys who asked me if I'd do that silly Graceland/Hallmark movie with them, and they call me every once in a while when their tuba guy isn't available. I believe the tuba-guy runs a NOLA brass band, this fellow (vocals/trumpet) runs a band that's more "indoors"-ish (4 to 20 pieces) and they always hire each other (which totally makes sense). These little quartet jobs are a bunch of work, because (with only three people playing pitched instruments), I would/will be expected to play solo choruses (or - at least - half choruses) on a large percentage of the songs...IN ADDITION TO playing at least one note of every beat of every song. Further (even though all the songs are familiar) when working as a "sub", others tend to play some tunes that one's own normal "circle" of musicians rarely play...so soloing on such tunes (even if the chord changes "play themselves") requires just a little bit more "mental energy".