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Originally Posted by Trompetvrouw Byron Stripling
Byron Stripling
Byron Stripling
Byron Stripling  (I really am a big fan of his sizzle........he can part your hair miles away. LOL) | Had I not seem him last year here in Pittsburgh,Pa with Patti Austin and the PSO,I would have concluded your response is an Eastman/Rochester thing |
Had I not picked him up from the airport when he came to Eastman to give a master class in the mid 90's (and proceed to blow us all away....literally.....his bell was no more than ten feet in front of me..DANGER ZONE!), I wouldn't even know who he was! I am one of his biggest fans! He is a great person/man on top of it. He told a funny story about how he was able to get cheap rent in Manhattan. He said he could live in a neighborhood where the rent was cheap because no one was going to complain to a big black man about his practicing.
The other cool thing? He studied with Leon Rapier too!