Swedish trumpeter Hakan Hardenberger is bidding to become the successor to Maurice André, and he is similar to André in his willingness to take on repertory of almost any period and deliver a convincing performance. It apparently occurred to someone at Decca that a collection of Hardenberger performances could double as an all-purpose trumpet box, ...
When Louis Armstrong scaled new heights of individualistic jazz virtuosity in a work like West End Blues, he was drawing partly on a tradition that is almost lost to modern listeners. Today the marching band music is thought of mostly as an ensemble music, but in Sousa's day it had a strong solo component exemplified by Herbert Lincoln Clarke. ...
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