| Chez Cornet
I had the honor and pleasure of teaching at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory for two weeks back in the mid 1990's at the invitation of Mravinsky's legendary trumpeter, Veniamin Margolin. In addition to hearing some of the loudest trumpet students anywhere (Brantissimo!), I also enjoyed many vodka soaked conversations with Prof. Margolin covering stories of the old Leningrad Philharmonic, our students, and the state of world trumpet playing. A pattern emerged in these conversations: names such as Bud Herseth, Maurice Murphy, and Peter Masseurs were always identified by Margolin as "great trumpeters" while names such as Maurice André, John Wallace, Timofey Dokshitzer, and Reinhold Friederich emerged as "great cornetists". It was obvious that this distinguished Russian orchestral trumpeter considered all trumpet soloists as "cornetists", in spite of rarely performing on our conical cousin.
First,I'm neither a musician nor a trumpeter.
Secondly,I appreciate how he seperated the trumpeters from the cornetists
but disagree with the conclusion that all trumpet soloists as cornetists.
Having watched and listened to the great Jazz trumpet players for over 45+ years,Nat Adderley stood out as a great cornet player.
However,I cannot honestly say the same about him in the "Wide World of Trumpets/Fluglehorns" :) as the field was wide and deep.
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"Clark Terry - C.T.,as his friends call him,is not only a master of the trumpet and flugelhorn,but a master musician and a leader to the manor born." - Dan Morgenstern. |