The Back Row

  While technically not the actual back row of a band, nothing behind the trumpet section is all that important anyway.  As other fellow band members, colleagues and enthusiasts read this, they are now getting a sense of how it is going to be while visiting this site.  

Spoken like a true trumpet player.  Truth be told however, I love all my fellow band members along with anyone else who loves and feels as privileged as I do performing in or listening to concert bands, symphonic bands and wind ensembles.

This site will be devoted to sharing thoughts and music from my experiences playing trumpet in bands over the last 40 years and counting.

"Trumpet players are just belligerent and cocky and you know, just hard-headed." - Wynton Marsalis

"The trumpet is the hardest, most frustrating and unforgiving instrument you can play." - Arturo Sandoval