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Originally Posted by wiseone2  The "Science Fiction" thread caught my eye.
Are we producing, in 2007, Super horns or Super players?
Just about thirty years ago a skinny kid rang my doorbell. He came in and played for me. I was blown away. Here was a teen-age kid who played like a seasoned professional.
How did this happen?
Technology.
The kid had experienced a half century of music in his living room, or on his Walkman. He had heard Pops, Diz, Miles, Bud, Maurice and the whole trumpet world in their prime.
There was no one saying, "That can't be done on a trumpet," because there it was on record that it could be done.
The young russian kid, who was even younger than the kid from New Orleans when I first met him, continues to dazzle and amaze me.
The skies the limit, we are truly living in an age of Paginini-like trumpet players.
And that's a fact 
Wilmer |
Hear,Hear !
I echo your sentiments and I'm one of those who strongly believe the best is yet to come.
In addition,let's not forget the local stalwarts who haven't made the public splash or who refuse to travel for multiple reasons or whose profession yields a greater cash income than life on the road as a musician.
To paraphrase (Charlie Byrd) one of the movers and shakers in the introduction of the Bosa-Nova sound to these shores -
"The concept of boiling down who plays well to just a few people you've heard is very deceptive.I run into people all the time who are absolutely phenomenal players in one way of the other."