| Re: Early influences?
For me, I would say Carl Stalling. He used snippets of all kinds of music in those Warner Bros. cartoons. I watched those cartoons so much that when in music appreciation class, I found I actually knew quite a bit of the music we studied. Someone told me the 1st trumpet of the WB Orchestra at the time was Larry Sullivan. I would list him as an early influence on my trumpet playing. That was some great trumpet playing in those cartoons. |