I would like to purchase a Zottola 64 A B or C trumpet mouthpiece does anyone know who I can turn to find and purchase one? Any information is greatly appriciated.
Jim Kulas

WE JUST RETURNED FROM TAMPA WHERE WE WERE HIRED TO PLAY FOR A PRE-SUPER BOWL PARTY. WE WERE HIRED BY A GROUP OF 4 GUYS, THEY PAID ALL AND I MEAN ALL EXPENSES. MY ONLY EXPENDITURE WAS 3.00 FOR A HOT DOG FROM A STREET VENDOR.WE WERE IN TAMPA FOR 3 DAYS, AND OUR TOTAL PLAYING TIME WAS ROUGHLY 3 HOURS. (AT NYES WE WOULD JUST BE WARMING UP). IT WAS NICE TO LEAVE -3 BELOW AND SPEND SOME TIME AT 75 ABOVE. WE HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT THEY WOULD LIKE US BACK AGAIN NEXT YEAR.

Just ordered from Jason and should be here in about 5 weeks or so. I know about Jasons work through reading another forum called the "Trumpetherald" and I had Jason modify my Yamaha 631 that I have had since high School. My biggest mistake in this idea however is that I decided to do a flugel horn first instead of a trumpet because I rarely get to play it on my present gigs. I do break it out for jazz though and it really sings with a darkness and warmth that I have heard from very few flugel ho… Continue

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To all of those who loved Freddie Hubbard's music and would like to help his family defray the hospital and funeral costs, you can make a donation to his wife at:

Mrs Birgitte Hubbard
14843 Addison Street
Sherman Oakes, Calf. 91403

Folks, I have had my long tone warm up and singing exercises for range development posted for free viewing on Youtube for about a year now. I have had folks request the music written out. I offer those for free to any private students wheter or not they are meeting personally in my studio or via my Webcam lessons from around the world. However, if you just want them written out (with Sibelius) I now have them on my Order Music page for only a couple of bucks. So if you don't wat to transcribe th… Continue