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Originally Posted by BPinard Sounds like quite a day!  It must have really been a cool occasion.
Honest question - when did you notice yourself not sounding "rotten?" I'm not that confident in my playing lately, and was wondering if any other professionals were having truouble playing at my age (I'm 16.) What I'm basically asking is, "When did you notice your playing really start to take off?"
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Each and every player of the trumpet is different. I met Sergei when he was about 14 years old, he was a virtuoso player at that age. Harry Glantz had held down jobs with major symphonies before he was sixteen.
There are no standards for achievement by performers. We move at our own speed.
I was playing in local orchestras at that age. Lee Morgan had already blown Chet Baker away at a jam session at that age. Ted Curson's band when he was a teen had Bobby Timmons, "Tootie" Heath and Jimmy Garrison in the rhythm section. They were playing Diz and Bird tunes.
Hang in there, it will happen if you persevere.
Wilmer