Monthly Archives: January 2018

Early Impressions

Posted on January 17, 2018 by Bill

When I was a kid in 1963 and had just started playing the trumpet, this was just out.  Al Hirt made it sound so fun and easy.  I fell in love with his sound.

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Concert on February 9, 2018 with the One O’Clock Lab Band and Marshall Gilkes

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Bill

Our museum is sponsoring this concert next month at Austin College.  It should be a great concert, and part of the Community Series 50th Anniversary year celebration. To buy tickets: http://communityseries.org/home  

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Maynard Ferguson playing “Somewhere” in 1969.

Posted on January 16, 2018 by Bill

https://www.facebook.com/vegashornplayer/videos/1828599937172538/   Maynard would have been about 41 and living in Europe during this time.  The big bands were dying and he would reinvent himself and his music in another year when MF Horn 1 came out.

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