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Brass Chats
by Monster Oil
Brass Chats are interviews with the best brass players in the industry hosted by Tom, Joel and Chris - trumpet players with the United Stated Coast Guard Band and makers of the wildly popular valve oil - Monster Oil. In each episode we ask successful brass players about their "tips and tricks" for mastering their instrument and we learn stories about their life as a professional brass player.
Episodes
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Brass Chats Episode 31: Chris Martin
Can you walk and chew gum at the same time? Rub your belly whilst patting your head? Triple-tongue three-octave arpeggios while sitting on the shoulders of a unicycle-riding bear in a party hat? Hmm...you're tough......how about: can you be principal trumpet of both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra...
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Brass Chats Episode 29: Jim Pandolfi
In our interview, Jim Pandolfi offered us the 'Red Pill' of trumpet pedagogy. You might *think* that you know correct trumpet playing technique... but after you hear what Mr. Pandolfi has to say, you might start to question EVERYTHING you've been taught before. Watch the interview and see how…
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Brass Chats Episode 28: Joe Alessi
The master of trombone talks about his life growing up in a household of musical influences, his challenges and breakthroughs in regards to playing trombone, and...his dream car.
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Brass Chats Episode 27: Phil Snedecor
Today we're sitting down with Phil Snedecor who teaches at the Hart School of Music in Hartford, Connecticut and he has played with pretty much every kind of ensemble you can think of including the Baltimore Symphony, the National Symphony and the Washington Symphonic Brass.
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Brass Chats Episode 26: Allan Dean
We bet lubes to doughnuts that you've never seen Chameleon played on a cornetto before this. We'll even give you 12 to 1 odds. So...you know...if we win, you have to buy 1 bottle of valve oil from us, and if you win, we have to buy you a dozen doughnuts. In fact, you'd probably buy yourself the...
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Brass Chats Episode 25: Louis Hanzlik
Word association time! You know how it works; I say a word, and you respond with the first thing that jumps to mind. Examples: Peanut Butter? Jelly. Star? Wars. Opera? She dies at the end. Okay...so....Louis Hanzlik? American Brass Quintet, Aspen, Juilliard, UCONN, Columbia Teacher's College...
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Brass Chats Episode 24: Tom Hooten
Adding handsomely to our stockpile of famously accomplished and otherworldly-good trumpet players in our Brass Chats Interview collection, this month we snared Tom Hooten, who sits in the principal trumpet chair for the Los Angeles Philharmonic. We were super lucky that he had time and energy for...
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Brass Chats Episode 23: Randy Brecker
You heard him for years with the Brecker Brothers, you saw him tear up the town in Stoplight Jazz. Now join us for a swim through the inner workings of the mind of trumpet legend, Randy Brecker! We hung with Randy and his cats (animals, not jazzers) at his pad in Montauk, NY, and covered...
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Brass Chats Episode 22: David Krauss
David Krauss, principal trumpet of the Met Opera Orchestra in NYC, had a lot of great stuff to share: stories about taking lessons in Wynton Marsalis' apartment...an unfortunate and unmentionable pogo stick injury, his favorite place to play trumpet, and a few great stories—like the time he…
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Brass Chats Episode 21: Vladislav Lavrik
So Vlad Lavrik is the principal trumpet of the Russian National Orchestra; he plays a mean horn and is actually a very fine conductor as well, and is exploring this passion very frequently at work and elsewhere. He being his fully Russian self, and us being us, we wanted to think of some funny...
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Brass Chats Episode 20: Jim Wilt
You wouldn't know it, but don't be fooled by his mild-mannered, well-temperamented exterior; but Jim Wilt? Associate Principal Trumpet of the Los Angeles Philharmonic? That guy is MAD at you. He told us, in this interview. We're talking really, really angry. Especially because of that time you…
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Brass Chats Episode 19: Malcolm McNab
Quiz time: which number is bigger: number of calendar years A.D., or number of movies Malcolm McNab has played on? ....I'll give you a hint: the answer is the part about the number of movies. Give up? No, I'm sorry—we were looking for "the number of movies Malcolm McNab has played on, which...
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Brass Chats Episode 18: Carl Saunders
LA Studio and Jazz player Carl Saunders has been described as "the best trumpet player you've never heard of." Well, we hope to change that with this month's Brass Chat because he's ridiculous. The guy can do anything with a horn, was generous with his time and talents, and plays a lot of trumpet...
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Brass Chats Episode 17: Monster Round With the Monsters
You asked for it? You got it: Here's the three handsomest members of Monster Oil, giving you an inside look at their streams of consciousness as they test themselves during the Monster Round. So many of you asked for this we had to do it. Our inbox was overflowing. For weeks on end, maybe months,...
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Brass Chats Episode 16: Ethan Bensdorf
Go to college. Graduate. Win job immediately. Win bigger job immediately. This is more or less the musical equivalent of the LeBron James career track, followed in this instance by the phenomenal Ethan Bensdorf, who made the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra the Cleveland Cavaliers of the Orchestral...
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Brass Chats Episode 15: Steve Dillon
This is the Brass Chats Interview you watch if you want to pick the brain of a man who likes hats, likes music, has an INSANE historical instrument collection (in the video, don't worry), provides musical goods and services to the greatest musicians in New York (and the rest of the country), and...
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Brass Chats Episode 14: Charlie Schlueter
Charlie Schlueter, principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for an iconic 25 years, now enjoys a quiet retirement at his home in Massachusetts. ...except for when three fools like us come pounding down his door demanding to be seen and asking him a bunch of rude questions about how to…
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Brass Chats Episode 13: Terry Everson
https://vimeo.com/197464482
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Brass Chats Episode 12: Mike Roylance
TUBA great Mike Roylance joins us this month! He's principal tubist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, played with our very own Tom Brown when they were both in the Chicago Civic Orchestra, and has an instrument rating. Find out why that has absolutely nothing to do with music—and many more…
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Brass Chats Episode 11: Mark Gould
Two things to learn about Mark Gould, if you don't already know them. 1: He was principal trumpet of the Met Opera for an absolutely staggering 29 years; and 2: He's a man that says what he means, and means what he says. This makes for a veritable storm of interestingness constantly surrounding...
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Brass Chats Episode 10: Doc Severinsen
https://youtu.be/hSHoUk0eTWM
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Brass Chats Episode 9: Mike Martin
Mike Martin is known primarily for his snappy style of dress, dashing good looks, fine taste in shoes, and golfing habit. He spends his free time playing trumpet for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, working with DCI's The Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps, Composing, and a whole bunch of other crap. The...
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Brass Chats Episode 8: Karin Bliznik
Karin Bliznik is a boss. There's not much more to say than that. We were late to the interview (weather), had to smooth-talk our way into using an empty room in a really, really fancieiye hotel room for the interview, and had to make sure that we got Karin on her way with enough time to get to...
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Brass Chats Episode 7: Ray Mase
Ray Mase has taught trumpet to every professional trumpet player alive and employed today. It's a fact, look it up. You'll find it on the Internet. ...actually you just found it on the Internet. There, just then. You're on the Internet. You know what else is on the Internet? A whole bunch of…
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Brass Chats Episode 6: Leroy Jones
Leroy Jones doesn't get nearly the recognition that he deserves. Here are some links, so that YOU can start to recognize him. He's better than you (obviously), and us (double obviously) and therefore you can learn a lot from listening to his playing, and you can get even further inside his head…
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Brass Chats Episode 5: Peter Bond
Peter Bond has been playing trumpet for the Metropolitan Opera (New York) since its inception in 1883. Since then, the Met has grown to become the largest classical music organization in America, and is unarguably one of America's national artistic treasures. We prodded Pete for his accumulated...
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Brass Chats Episode 4: Denver Dill
Denver Dill, bugler in the Hellcats (the West Point Band's field music group), sits down to shoot the breeze on overcoming a lip injury, performing modern works for trumpet, and—of course—a Monster Round for the ages.
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Brass Chats Episode 3: Josh Landress
Josh Landress, owner of J. Landress Brass in Manhattan, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, USA, Earth, master repairer and instrument craftsman, sits down with the Monsters and straight up gets what's been comin' to him for a long, long time.
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Brass Chats Episode 2: Tom Rolfs
If you're the principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, you play trumpet like a boss. But who is Tom's biggest musical influence? This answer and more below.
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Brass Chats Episode 1: Arturo Sandoval
In our candid talk with trumpet legend, Arturo Sandoval, he reveals the #1 key to mastering improvisation, his amazing perspective on life's challenges, and... whether he prefers brunettes or blondes.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Brass Chats are interviews with the best brass players in the industry hosted by Tom, Joel and Chris - trumpet players with the United Stated Coast Guard Band and makers of the wildly popular valve oil - Monster Oil. In each episode we ask successful brass players about their "tips and tricks" for mastering their instrument and we learn stories about their life as a professional brass player.
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Brass Chats are interviews with the best brass players in the industry hosted by Tom, Joel and Chris - trumpet players with the United Stated Coast Guard Band and makers of the wildly popular valve oil - Monster Oil. In each episode we ask successful brass players about their "tips and tricks" for...
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