MJ

I know its been around for a while...

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krossum

that must be at the end of the gig - "playing on my teeth"

-Kelly

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Martin Williams

Gotta admit, the embrochure was the first thing I noticed also

A.N.A. Mendez

You mean I've been doing it wrong?????No wonder I can't get a gig......

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(Above) Alexanders ragtime band-circa 1960

"Baby, I'm already the coolest, and the hippist, now you want me to be on time too?" Buddy Love

"We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and our best generals to edit our newspapers." Robert E. Lee

BADBOY-DON

Amazing the things we see in movies...commercials etc. that show folks playing trumpet.

One of the advertising on TV that really has me...snylin and laughin' is a commerical showing an old asmatic' trumpet dude...
up in his attic...opening his trumpet case for the first time in years...
He picks it up and BLOWS JUST AS GREAT (or badly) AS HE DID WHEN HE WAS A KID!
Just then his son seen walking up the attic stairs...say: "DAD! I DIDN'T KNOW YOU COULD PLAY LIKE THAT?"
His response:
"NEITHER DID I SON!"
The next shot we see and hear his son playing a virtual copy of that "smaltzie same..doo'wappatity..doowap, theme" almost like his father...
WHY DOES THAT CRACK ME UP SO MUCH, BUT PUNCHES MY "GET-REAL" BUTTONS SOOOOOOOOOO BADLY?

Gads...IF THAT DRUG IS THAT DIGGITY-DAG GOOD AND IF IT WILL GIVE ME A RENEWED TALENT EQUAL TO WYNTON MARSALIS OR A BERGERONSKI' THEN....
"I'LL HAVE WHAT DRUG THAT DAD AND SON ARE HAVING!!!"

Eclipsehornplayer

Ahhh Yes.... That's one of my favorites..

Here's the company http://www.advair.com/

It is interesting how when he speaks his voice is almost as gravely as Louis Armstong's was. Hummmm I wonder if they meant that?

Gotta love the folks in marketing.

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crash

Wow, you would think someone from the photographer al the way to the ad layout guy would have noticed this before it got published! It's not like JPMorgan is a one man show. How many hands were touched this picture before it became an ad.

Dale Proctor

This is one I never tire of looking at.



Bob Pallansch restoring a Bach "Chicago C" trumpet. He's a miracle worker with badly-damaged horns.

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MFfan

How about the commercial with the 100 yr old guy , still playing and driving to gigs and doing his house chores. that's pretty good. Doc Cheatam comes to mind as almost that old when he died. At least they are featuring trumpets, not bassoons!