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Episode 100 is a landmark event for any podcast, so I wanted this one to be special.

I asked the following questions and let anyone who wanted to answer them.

Q.1 Who is one trumpet player from history we probably don’t know, but should know, and why?

Q.2 Who was the biggest influence in your development as a trumpeter and why?

Q.3 If you could transport yourself to any era of the trumpet's history, what era would you choose and why?

Q.4 What is one thing on your "bucket list" as a musician? Be careful what you wish for, it might come to pass

We welcome back to the program Glenn Zottola along with his brother, Bob. This is a wonderful conversation centered on the heritage of jazz and personal recollections among the Zottola brothers.

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What made Fritz Reiner so special? Bernie Adelstein shares the answer to this as well as many recollections from his esteemed career with the Pittsburgh, Dallas, Minneapolis and Cleveland Symphony Orchestras.

Another hilarious memory is the contrast of reviews between a newspaper in London and Northern Minnesota. You won't want to miss that one!

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Dr. Cara Pollard is currently the trumpet player and founder of the international ensemble – Imbroglio Sextet. She is also an adjunct professor at Texas Christian University where she has taught for 2 years. Before coming to TCU, Dr. Pollard taught trumpet at Tarleton State University for four years and prior to that, Texas Tech School of Music for five years. Dr. Pollard holds the BS degree in Radio Television Film from UT Austin, and the MME from New Mexico State University at Las Cruces as well as a DMA in Trumpet Performance from Texas Tech University. Before receiving her doctorate, Dr. Pollard was a band director in Joshua, Texas teaching 6th - 12th grade band and jazz band. She is an active member of ITG, JEN, ISME and TMEA as well as a freelance trumpet player in the DFW area.

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Walt is based in L.A. and travels around the world with Frank Sinatra Jr.

He was Elvis' lead trumpet player until his death and Frank Sinatra's lead player until his death.

Has played on many TV shows, movies and records throughout the years. Also took the place of Bill Chase on the "Chase" Band.

Now is recording a new CD each year.

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Paul was instantly attracted to the trumpet at the age of six years old and very shortly announced to his parents that he was going to be a professional trumpet player. His formal lessons began but it was the “apprenticeship program” of playing with older kids that Paul attributes as his best influences. Hanging on to the coat tails of those older more experienced kids and playing catch up was a wonderful training ground. By the time he was in ninth grade Paul was playing in local college bands, and by fifteen playing lead in a university band.

It was around that time that his more advanced peers started passing on sub work and Paul’s first “professional gig” was with a big band at a mental institution. That should have been a warning about the crazy music business.

During college Paul became active in the club scene and became a staple in the recording studios playing hundreds of jingles, record dates, and film scores. He adopted the attitude that if there was a hole in the calendar he would take every gig offered, and it was from that varied experience that he gained versatility of style. From polka bands, salsa bands, rock bands, brass quintets, clown bands, pit orchestras, and the studios, he has a wide spectrum of styles. He has played garden parties for ten to crowds of 64,000 in football stadiums.

Since beginning his professional career over thirty-five years ago, Paul Baron has amassed an extensive list of credentials, and has become one of the busiest and most well respected lead and commercial trumpet players in Canada. A shortened list of credits include stints with Natalie Cole, Harry Connick Jr., Diana Krall, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Lou Rawls, James Ingram, Patti Austin, Sheena Easton, Ray Charles, Barry Manilow, Bob Hope, Dionne Warwick, Wayne Newton, Steve Allen, Broadway Divas Patti LuPone and Chita Riviera, and many more. He has toured with The Temptations, Mary Wells, and Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, and has played for virtually all of the Motown groups from The Spinners to The Four Tops to The OJAYS. Recently, Paul performed the Gil Evans/Miles Davis suite of "Porgy and Bess" under the baton of the eminent jazz authority Gunther Schuller. His many recordings include Aerosmith (Grammy Award winning song), INXS, David Lee Roth, Skywalk, Powder Blues, and the Barenaked Ladies, as well as numerous movie and television soundtracks ("Mrs. Doubtfire", "Stargate SG1", "MacGyver", "Ace Ventura, Pet Detective", "First Daughter", "Lake Placid", "Airbud") and is heard on the tracks for the Calgary Stampede and Grey Cup celebrations as lead trumpet. In addition to these performances, Paul may be heard on hundreds of television and radio commercials, including McDonald's, Wendy's, Coke, Pepsi, Ford, Mazda, Toyota and Century 21, Flinstones Vitamins, and many games for Electronic Arts, EA Sports. Paul's musical theater highlights locally include playing first trumpet for the touring companies of "Miss Saigon", "Kiss of the Spider Woman", "Fiddler on the Roof", "West Side Story", "Annie", "Chicago", and "Beauty And The Beast". Paul premiered the first production of Vancouver's hit musical revue "Forever Swing", and has played all of the shows since. Paul has toured extensively in the last ten years with the first national companies of "Forever Swing", "Evita", "Swing", "Cats", "The Full Monty", “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels”, Broadway legend Chita Rivera's show, "Chita Rivera, The Dancer’s Life", “Monty Python’s Spamalot” starring Richard Chamberlain, 2008 Tony Award winning musical "In The Heights", 2010 Tony winner "Memphis, The Musical", "Sister Act, A Divine Musical Comedy". On a recent hiatus from the road, Paul played for the world premiere of ":Secondhand Lions" for Warner Bros based on their movie of the same name, The 5th Avenue Theater's new musical "A Room With A View",

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Frank is a graduate of the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA. Frank has performed with such jazz greats as Maynard Ferguson, Clark Terry, Slide Hampton, Jon Faddis, the late Nick Brignola to mention a few. He has performed at such prestigious venues as the Boston Globe Jazz Festival, the Saratoga Springs Jazz Festival, the Newport Jazz Festival and Carnegie Hall. His musical compositions and arrangements have been performed by the San Francisco Symphony, and Boston Metropolitan Orchestra, and many others. Frank is the music director and trumpet soloist for the Ryles Jazz Orchestra (the house big band for Boston’s famed Ryles Jazz Club). He has 7 CDs as a leader and has appeared on numerous CDs as a sideman. He leads his 16 piece big band, the Frank Vardaros Jazz Orchestra that can be seen in the Los Angeles area at venues including Catalina Jazz Club, Typhoon’s and LACMA (LA County Museum of Art). Frank has been a performer and music educator for over thirty years. As an educator Frank has taught master classes and clinics at numerous high schools and colleges throughout the country and has been teaching privately since the age of 18 years old. Frank was the recipient of the Boston Arts Fellowship presented to him by the mayor of Boston MA. Frank has a passion for teaching; many of his students have gone on to become professional musicians.

For many of us, the name "Kanstul" is simply one among many brands of trumpets from which to choose. However, the founder of the company, Zig Kanstul, is one of the most respected in the trumpet community. His passing was marked with reverence and the highest respect by some of the best-known trumpeters in the world.

This interview shows the human side of Zig, in the words of Dale Olson, Zig's longtime friend and one-time colleague in the realm of trumpet manufacturing.

About the Guest: Long recognized as a member of the international trumpet elite, R. Dale Olson brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the contemporary trumpet world through his writings and lectures.

Originally from the state of Texas, Olson holds the Masters Degree in Trumpet Performance from the University of North Texas, and the Masters Degree in Experimental Psychology from California State University, Fullerton. In 2007, he was named Distinguished Alumnus of the University of North Texas.

Early teachers were Everette James (Harry’s father), John J. Haynie, Renold Schilke, John Clyman, and Vladimir Drucker. Over many years, his research associates have included Dr. Robert W. Young, President of the Acoustical Society of America, Zig Kanstul, and William T. Cardwell.

Extensive research over sixty years has resulted in completion of approximately twenty book length works on trumpet performance, design, and testing. Olson has chosen only one, “Sensory Evaluation of Brass Musical Instruments”, for publication. He is currently involved in a monumental work of analyzing every United States patent related to trumpet ever granted.

Olson has lectured at numerous Conferences of the International Trumpet Guild, University of Edinburg, Scottish International Trumpet Festival, Rice University, and many colleges and universities.

With his wife, Diane, Olson has homes in Orange County, California, Indian Wells, California, and Galveston Island, Texas.

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Today is Friday, which means we talk about entrepreneurship. Emilio Guarino contacted me several weeks ago wanting to promote his book, "Make It: A Guide for Recent Music Graduates." The ebook is available currently and the print version releases on 28 November.

About the Guest:

My name is Emilio. I play bass in lots of different ways, make music with computers, and teach.

BASS

I'm a bass player. Bass playing is home for me and it has taken me to some wonderful places. I have premiered music by award winning composers, participated in innovative cultural festivals, and toured much of the US and Europe.

When I'm not doing any of that, I freelance in New York City.

TEACHING

I was very lucky to study with groundbreaking teachers, meet generous mentors, and befriend ambitious colleagues over the years. I owe these people everything.

And as amazing as all that is, there are still some topics that don't get discussed enough. Or some that aren't talked about at all.

I work to change this by teaching privately and publishing on both my website and YouTube channel. I also wrote a book for professional musicians at the earliest stages of their careers. The book is called "Make It."

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Bruno Garcia Fermiano is a Brazilian trumpet player, writer, owner of the largest trumpet website in Brazil and one of the organizers of the Jazz Trumpet Festival, the Sao Paulo Trumpet Academy and the Sax Fest Brazil. He was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1984. At 10, he started playing trumpet in a school marching band. At 15, he started taking trumpet lessons. He received a Bachelor in Music in Trumpet Performance from the Faculdade Mozarteum de Sao Paulo and in 2010, he attended Eastern Kentucky University as a guest student.

Back in his native Brazil, he has played in many musical shows having a busy freelancer career in Sao Paulo. Beside being a freelancer musician, he is the owner of the largest trumpet website in Brazil called Trumpet Articles.

Since 2013, he has been one of the organizers of the Jazz Trumpet Festival which has brought to Brazil international artists as Eric Miyashiro, Greg Gisbert, Allen Vizzutti, Byron Stripling, Thomas Gansch, Adam Rapa, Jon Faddis, Teus Nobel, Yturvides Vilchez and Bobby Shew.

In 2017, he is helping to organize the first edition of the Sao Paulo Trumpet Academy in which the main purpose is to develop an information exchange among teachers of American universities and Brazilian trumpet players in order to develop the Brazilian trumpet community.