Larry Gianni

Enrico,

Great to hear from you.

I actually met Tom when he was playing trumpet with Boz Scaggs back in the mid 70's. After hanging out for a while, I finally talked him into giving me lessons for a while before he left on another tour. Back then, he was living in San Mateo, Ca. and I grew up in San Francisco

Tom is a excellent player and alway ready to help another player. You can really use the mentor when speaking of Tom.

The SF bay area had alot of fine trumpet players filling the horn sections of the 70's/ 80's pop bands. I think Tower of Power really gave the Bay Area a mystique about that 70's horn section sound that alot of other acts wanted to emulate.

Other SF bay area " Rock " ( for lack of a better term ) trumpet players;

Mic Giillete
Greg Adams
Bill Atwood
Peter Welker
Larry Jonutz
Dave Padron
Ken Balzel

The SF bay area had so many famous bands that called it home in that era that you could literally go to Studio One Rentals down on Folsom St. and have Tower of Power in one room, Journey , in a another, Boz Scaggs down the hall and the Tubes across from them with Huey Lewis walking in the front door.



Larry

Enrico

Right you are! Tom plays the famous lead part for "Runnin' Blue" by Boz Scaggs! . . .daaopaa ta-dat 2 3 dee-dah__ do-dahhh...

tomba51

Larry,

What a surprise to see my name listed in the same post as all the other heavyweight players that you mentioned! Thank you very much, but I certainly should not be mentioned in the same category as those other great players.

I'm still around, and I'm still playing, thanks again for mentioning me.

Tom Barreca
musicians@thetee.com

Kenzo

Hi Larry,

I wanted to correct a slight error in the horn Joe Mosello played when he came to New York. Joe said when he came to New York he played a Schilke X3L.

FWIW he plays a Bach 43 now and is having Chicago Brassworks make him a horn. I have played the nearly finished version. Very Nice...

All the Best...

Larry Gianni

Hi Kenzo,

Thanks for the correction - i just re-read my post and I in my haste to post I wrote B3 instead of X3 - Thank you. I actually got ahold of a friend of mine from New York for that info knowing Joe favored a Schilke LB during his road days and on his arrival to New York but needed model confirmation. He did tell me it was a X3 , but my fingers ( and brain ) gave out on me. ( he also thought Joe kept a B1 in reserve )


If i mentioned the guy i spoke with, you'd be sure to recognize the name and probably know him.

If interested PM me.

Iassume this was also the trumpet he was playing on Maynard's band when he was playing next to Stan Mark's Benge 6x/jet tone studio B set-up and Nicholson's holton St 306 ( maybe 302 ) / jet tone t2a set-up

Please add to the thread in any way being your playing and know the area.

Thanks again for fixing my " brain f***"
or " senior moment " like my kids refer to it

From what I hear out here on the West Coast - the " Chicago Brassworks " trumpets are a superb line of instruments.

For those of you that are unfamiliar with the line, it's spearheaded by master craftsman Wayne Tanabe of the Brass Bow and East Coast trumpet extraordinare Rich Szabo. ( another former Maynard BB player )

From what I've heard, the GSC model is finding wide spread praise by all who play it.

Thanks again and all the best

Larry

Kenzo

Thanks Larry,

I sent you a PM.

I believe this model that Joe has is a M model. Very interesting. It has a sleeve over the leadpipe so it essentially floats and no bell bead. It is a very responsive horn. Joe is sending it back for a few adjustments but man, this horn is a player. Definitely a lead horn.

It will be interesting to see how these horns do. The few I've seen are very well made and I think Wayne is on to something.

Keep up the good work. I enjoy reading your posts.

NickD

Wow, I have been trying to get through all fo this thread. All of you have a dazzeling command of recent trumpet history. I am most impressed. This is quite the cool site.

The second to the last post (assuming I didn't miss something) mentioned the Chicago Brassworks GSC model trumpets. FWIIW, I play one. I took delivery on it back in October.

Wayne and I have been friends for many years. We've done a bit of fishing together and he made my first custm horn for me. I finally just wore that axe out and began looking for a large bore horn (.470). I was tryig a lot of different axes that were available to me around here in Chicago. Kanstuls and WT's are scarce as hen's teeth in the Chicago area, I'm afraid, but Wayne's shop is a half hour from my house, so I began and finished my exploration there.

I tried his GSB prototype almost a year ago on the sly. I loved it after about 5 minutes. It looks sorta like a Conn Avoca (sp??), but with the slides on the "correct" side of the valves. When I took home his floor models to play for my wife (an aducated musical consumer, but NOT a trumpet expert) she helped me with a blindfold test. She ALWAYS picked the copper bell, yellow brass bell flare GSC as her favorite sound. All of his horns took plenty of air and just played so easily - very comfortable slotting all the way up and down the horn. I had mine completely gold plated, and got a Walt Johnson single case with it. Cool set up, IMHO!

I discovered some other neat horns in my search. When I picked up my bass trumpet, I found I also really like the Getzen customs and the new Severinsen horns. All of the highest quality. They just couldn't quite win me over once I got a hold of Wayne's horn.

The original post wasn't supposed to be about horns. Sorry. I just spotted the reference to the GSC, so I got a little bit worked up.

Gotta run!

Peace.

NickD

MPM

Nick,

Great to see you here. Saw you playing with Maynards band years ago!!! I think it was Stan, Jeff Conrad, Jeff Park & you!

Would like to hear more about this horn of yours.

MPM

NickD

Hello, MPM!

Actually, the section when I was on was as follows:

I played Second
Stan played lead
Alan Wise played third
Sergis Yow played fourth

My year was 1981.

It was an amazing gig. It had it's ups and downs, but the experience was definitely a career starter.

BTW, I am obviously off this Friday night. I'm sitting here working on my blues in wierd keys at various tempos right and left handed. I'm also fooling around getting ready to finish off my Arban Etude recordings. I'm going to try to knock off another one tomorrow. We'll have to see how time goes.

I really do have to split. I've got a date with a tread mill and then I have to spend the rest of the evening with the family (a standing promise on night's off).

Peace, all.

NickD

MPM

Nick,

I stand corrected ... the section I mentioned was Stan, Jeff, Jeff, Alan Wise ... I believe you either followed or took over Dave Triggs spot.

Enjoy your evening and please do contribute as often as possible.

Regards