You have no idea how happy it makes me to see people in my generation, playing like James Morrison. I was losing faith, so I was looking for the best of the best. Not only am I satisfied, but I realize how much I have to work on myself (alto sax). This just created a brand new road for me. Thanks so much dude. I thought I was the shxt for making 1st chair All State, but I haven't even started yet, now that I've seen this. Thanks again dude. Awesome motivation.
I love the flugelhorn! It's one of my favorite brass instruments, as well as the trumpet of course. For me, it's always mind-blowing to see and hear young players have these kind of chops. Wow! Congratulations, Mr. Shpak.
Hey, thank you! I'm always trying to better my sound, because I think if the sound isn't good, nothing else really matters. Wishing you all the best...
What is so refreshing is that you don't play patterns, you don't play fashionable phrases, but you do play what you hear; and what you hear is always interesting. It makes me want to hear what comes next.
Young man - you are blessed beyond anybodies wildest imaginations. Always love what you do, but do remain humble. What is as impressive as your ability is your style - your concept of the music - way beyond your years. Even though you are young in years - never forget that young trumpet player you inspire today. Very impressive - love the flugel. I play a Marcinkiewicz flugel mouthpiece - like it very much. I look forward to seeing and hearing more from you!
Thanks for your kind words and wishes! My trumpet is a Yamaha 8310Z (the Shew model), and my flugel is a CarolBrass CFL-6200-GSS-SLB. And regarding your comparison to Clifford...well, I have a LONG way to go to become anywhere near the amazing artist he was, but thanks for your support!! :)
Thanks for writing. The backgrounds are all Hal Leonard tracks made for the Real Book. My mentor/producer created the unaccompanied (and bass) intro for Billie's Bounce. The audition was two years ago, and it went well...I got in the group! Thanks again for your kind words...
The USA distributor for Carolbrass (Doug Teeter) heard me play in the California All-State Honor Jazz Band a few years ago, and asked me if I'd be interested in being an endorsed artist. I absolutely loved (and still love) the Carolbrass flugelhorn, so I eagerly said YES!
Sure! If you search Amazon for "Charlie Parker: Jazz Play-Along Volume 26 Hal Leonard", it's in that book, and a great play-along track is included as well. Or, it's also in Aebersold's Volume 6 - "Charlie Parker - All Bird Volume 6" book (but the track isn't as ideal as the Hal Leonard track). Hope that helps...
Thanks for writing. I'd say one of the best ways to improve one's jazz playing (which I'm working on all the time) is to transcribe as many great solos as possible. Being able to hear and write down the lines of a great solo, and then analyze how those lines fit into the chord progressions really makes a huge difference in one's abilities to come up with and implement lines of their own. I hope that helps!
I myself was a professional Latin Jazz,, Jazz, Salsa & studio recording musician for almost 20 years. I did alot of stupid stuff during my pro career that cost me dearly even though I had excellent teachers, I just didn't listen. Never stop learning and always listen to your elders my friend. My favorite trumpet players of all times are Chet Baker, Maynard Ferguson, Woody Shaw, Rafael Mendez, Clark Terry, Miles Davis, Luis Perico Ortiz, and my two mentors Dizzy Gillespie & Juancito Torres.
Thanks for writing. I listened to some of your videos and you sound good! For me, transcribing solos, learning all the many scale patterns and just playing as much as possible are what help me the most. Hope that helps...and keep up the good work!
Thanks for your kind words...sorry for my delayed response! What I found that works for me is transcribing and playing solos from the masters (not just playing them out of books, but actually figuring out and writing out the solos yourself), as well as learning all the scales that work on all the chords. And then, while keeping all that info in mind, trying to tell a story when playing your own solos. I hope that makes sense!
Thanks for your kind words! For this audition, I was using a Yamaha Miyashiro EMS1 trumpet mouthpiece, and a copy of an old Jet Tone custom flugel mouthpiece.
@andrben Thanks very much! The tour with the Next Gen Jazz Orchestra starts on July 22nd and goes for 10 days. We then all reunite from Sep. 14-19 to play on Center Stage at the Monterey Jazz Festival.
Thanks so much for your kind message. I play the Carolbrass flugel and the Yamaha 8310Z trumpet. As for the EM1 mouthpiece, it felt good for me right from the start. Before that mpc, I was playing the Marcinkiewicz Shew 1.75 with the backbore drilled out to .26. Of course, mpc selection is such a personal thing, but I hope that helps!
Thanks for writing back. The Hal Leonard tracks can be purchased from the HalLeonard website (type "real book cd" into their search). To get the complete set of 4 CDs, you'd need to buy "Vol 1 A-D", "Vol 1 E-K", "Vol 1 L-R", "Vol 1 S-Z". You can get them from Amazon too. The Jamey Aebersold tracks come with all the many Aebersold books (also available from Amazon). Hope that helps!
Thanks so much for your very positive feedback. I have not met Tyler Webb, although I think that when I was one of the 12 semifinalists in the 2013 National Tpt. Competition, he was one as well. I ended up not going to NTC, due to a prior commitment at the Kennedy Center, so that's why I didn't meet him, but maybe next time!
Damn man, I'm lead tenor at my high school jazz band and i don't think our lead trumpet player has the brass chops you have, keep on jazzing the world up man.
That's absolutely marvelous, particularly the version of Daahoud selected was from Clifford's Pacific Jazz session which was arranged by Jack Montrose, and recorded a month before the better known Emarcy recording.
@CheezyAssVideos I play a Yamaha Shew 8310Z trumpet, with a Yamaha Miyashiro 1S mouthpiece, and a CarolBrass CFL-6200-GSS-SLB flugelhorn with a Jet Tone mouthpiece.
thanks for replying, that really means alot. I am actually a junior in high school and hope to major in trumpet performance and jazz studies. You're awesome and you should post videos of what your everyday practice is, that would be extremely helpful. If not, then that's okay you still rock
Your technical maturity and how you play is a credit to your (your?) Mentors. Congratulations. If one day you want to vacation in Europe, Switzerland? You should think at the Montreux Jazz Festival. You have your place. Lots of fun to listen to you. And sorry for my bad english!
Thanks again so much for your kind words! I played at Montreux with the Berkeley JazzSchool Studio Band when I was in high school, and it would of course be wonderful to play there again!
bigeyezzzzzzz Oh! You already know the Montreux Jazz then! If you allow me, I shall transmit to the organizaton of the Montreux Jazz Festival just some of your videos link.
Amazing man! What I love most about your playing (in that its different from others) is your smooth tone, vs. the very edgy tone most other trumpet players get. I play jazz trombone, and this video inspired me to go practice! ahhaha
Thanks for writing....some of the tracks are Hal Leonard, some are Aebersold, and my producer, Michael Miller, edits and/or alters them to work better for whatever the purpose might be. The mic is a Neumann U67 made in 1966...it is a GREAT mic!!
@s93lnknprk Transcribing my solos? Wow, that's an amazing compliment! The backing track for "Billie's Bounce" is from Hal Leonard Vol. 26 "Charlie Parker" book, which includes a CD. My producer added a few empty bars and then a bass line to the beginning, so I could play mostly-unaccompanied for the first verse, and he also sped up the track a bit. "Easy Living" comes from the playalong CDs that can be purchased for the Hal Leonard Real Book Vol. 1, 6th Edition. We slowed that track down.
@clskmstg Thanks for writing again, and I certainly did have a great summer, all capped by performing yesterday in three different groups at the Monterey Jazz Festival! The groups were: the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, the Jazzschool Studio Band, and the Chase Morrin Group. And now I go back to Berklee. Enjoy getting out your horn and paying some dues, or better yet: playing some blues!
@MMJ420Gardener Wow, what an amazing comment. Thank you! You make me want to practice even more than I already do so I can even come close to living up to your words!
The trumpet is a Yamaha 8310Z (Bobby Shew model), and the flugel is a CarolBrass CFL-6200-GSS-SLB. If you're interested in the flugel, you can contact their their US distributor, Doug Teeter, in California at 1-559 436-5247 or 1-559 301-0858. I am fortunate to be sponsored by them.
@LearningWitness I continue to be amazed at all the wonderful feedback being sent to me. I still have a lot of work ahead of me before I'd feel fully ready to start giving advice, but I can at least tell you that, for developing tone, I do LOTS of long tones (holding notes for as long as possible, while watching a digital tuner to get the pitch centered), and for improv, I practice all sorts of jazz scales & licks given to me by Dann Zinn and Clark Terry. Thank you, and I hope this helps.
@clskmstg I can't begin to tell you how much your words mean to me, and I hope to one day live up to all you see in me. Thank you so much for taking the time to write...you really made my day!
StarcallerSolois Thanks so much for your really nice message. That 2011 audition seems like forever ago!! Here's to all good trumpeting ahead for you. Between doing transcriptions (by ear) of your favorite solos, doing long tones, and practicing several times a day for a total of around 4 or more hours, you should make a lot of progress!
@averythepokemonking Thanks for your kind words. I don't know where you can get the sheet music of "Easy Living" for free. I got it from my Hal Leonard REAL BOOK (the 6th edition, which I bought last year).
Sorry for the delay in answering. The arrangement of "Easy Living" is a playalong track from the Hal Leonard Real Book Vol. 1, 6th Edition. They sell CDs with tracks to many of the tunes in the book. The only change I made to the "Easy Living" track is that I slowed it down just a bit. Hope that helps...!
You have no idea how happy it makes me to see people in my generation, playing like James Morrison. I was losing faith, so I was looking for the best of the best. Not only am I satisfied, but I realize how much I have to work on myself (alto sax). This just created a brand new road for me. Thanks so much dude. I thought I was the shxt for making 1st chair All State, but I haven't even started yet, now that I've seen this. Thanks again dude. Awesome motivation.
wow guy you really followed through on your manifest. Both of you are really good/great young players. I am impressed beyond.
dude you murdered Billie's Bounce
Damn man you were so good in 2011, I can only imagine how good you are now!! Great job man!!
Hey, thanks so much....I really appreciate that! :-)
I love the flugelhorn! It's one of my favorite brass instruments, as well as the trumpet of course. For me, it's always mind-blowing to see and hear young players have these kind of chops. Wow! Congratulations, Mr. Shpak.
The talent on display here is undeniable.
your sound so amazing without screaming or trying to impress rather than serenade, thats what makes the best jazz musicians
Thank you! The trumpet is a Yamaha Shew 8310Z, and the flugel is a Carolbrass CFL-620R-SLB. Thanks for listening...
Hey, thank you! I'm always trying to better my sound, because I think if the sound isn't good, nothing else really matters. Wishing you all the best...
What is so refreshing is that you don't play patterns, you don't play fashionable phrases, but you do play what you hear; and what you hear is always interesting. It makes me want
to hear what comes next.
Young man - you are blessed beyond anybodies wildest imaginations. Always love what you do, but do remain humble. What is as impressive as your ability is your style - your concept of the music - way beyond your years. Even though you are young in years - never forget that young trumpet player you inspire today. Very impressive - love the flugel. I play a Marcinkiewicz flugel mouthpiece - like it very much. I look forward to seeing and hearing more from you!
I had a grt carreer winning a lot of awards, years ago, and I couldn't play any better!
Kudos
Thanks very much!! Working hard at it every day...
Thanks for your kind words and wishes! My trumpet is a Yamaha 8310Z (the Shew model), and my flugel is a CarolBrass CFL-6200-GSS-SLB. And regarding your comparison to Clifford...well, I have a LONG way to go to become anywhere near the amazing artist he was, but thanks for your support!! :)
Thanks for writing. The backgrounds are all Hal Leonard tracks made for the Real Book. My mentor/producer created the unaccompanied (and bass) intro for Billie's Bounce. The audition was two years ago, and it went well...I got in the group! Thanks again for your kind words...
And, thank YOU!
2024 new subscriber here. You chose great repertoire and your playing was super fluent. I look forward to hearing more.
The USA distributor for Carolbrass (Doug Teeter) heard me play in the California All-State Honor Jazz Band a few years ago, and asked me if I'd be interested in being an endorsed artist. I absolutely loved (and still love) the Carolbrass flugelhorn, so I eagerly said YES!
Thanks very much. At the time of this audition, I was 17.
Me again lol, this is one of my favorite renditions of billies bounce here on the tube thanks bro
True talent man!!!
Sure! If you search Amazon for "Charlie Parker: Jazz Play-Along Volume 26 Hal Leonard", it's in that book, and a great play-along track is included as well. Or, it's also in Aebersold's Volume 6 - "Charlie Parker - All Bird Volume 6" book (but the track isn't as ideal as the Hal Leonard track). Hope that helps...
Thank you!
Absolute performance in the meaning of mastery! Respect.
Thanks for writing. I'd say one of the best ways to improve one's jazz playing (which I'm working on all the time) is to transcribe as many great solos as possible. Being able to hear and write down the lines of a great solo, and then analyze how those lines fit into the chord progressions really makes a huge difference in one's abilities to come up with and implement lines of their own. I hope that helps!
I myself was a professional Latin Jazz,, Jazz, Salsa & studio recording musician for almost 20 years. I did alot of stupid stuff during my pro career that cost me dearly even though I had excellent teachers, I just didn't listen. Never stop learning and always listen to your elders my friend. My favorite trumpet players of all times are Chet Baker, Maynard Ferguson, Woody Shaw, Rafael Mendez, Clark Terry, Miles Davis, Luis Perico Ortiz, and my two mentors Dizzy Gillespie & Juancito Torres.
nice list but what about Brownie?
@jazzgator5678 The trumpet mouthpiece is a Yamaha Miyashiro 1S, and thanks for your nice compliment!
Thanks so much!
Truer words could not have been said.
Excellent advice!
As a trumpet player, this is amazing
+Thank you, kind sir!
Thanks for writing. I listened to some of your videos and you sound good! For me, transcribing solos, learning all the many scale patterns and just playing as much as possible are what help me the most. Hope that helps...and keep up the good work!
Thanks for your kind words...sorry for my delayed response! What I found that works for me is transcribing and playing solos from the masters (not just playing them out of books, but actually figuring out and writing out the solos yourself), as well as learning all the scales that work on all the chords. And then, while keeping all that info in mind, trying to tell a story when playing your own solos. I hope that makes sense!
Thanks for your kind words! For this audition, I was using a Yamaha Miyashiro EMS1 trumpet mouthpiece, and a copy of an old Jet Tone custom flugel mouthpiece.
@andrben Thanks very much! The tour with the Next Gen Jazz Orchestra starts on July 22nd and goes for 10 days. We then all reunite from Sep. 14-19 to play on Center Stage at the Monterey Jazz Festival.
Awesome!!! Love the flugalhorn too!
Thanks so much for your kind message. I play the Carolbrass flugel and the Yamaha 8310Z trumpet. As for the EM1 mouthpiece, it felt good for me right from the start. Before that mpc, I was playing the Marcinkiewicz Shew 1.75 with the backbore drilled out to .26. Of course, mpc selection is such a personal thing, but I hope that helps!
Thanks for writing back. The Hal Leonard tracks can be purchased from the HalLeonard website (type "real book cd" into their search). To get the complete set of 4 CDs, you'd need to buy "Vol 1 A-D", "Vol 1 E-K", "Vol 1 L-R", "Vol 1 S-Z". You can get them from Amazon too. The Jamey Aebersold tracks come with all the many Aebersold books (also available from Amazon). Hope that helps!
Thank you for your kind and encouraging words!!
Thanks for the great advice! I couldn't agree more...
Wow, that's very kind of you. Thank you so much...
Thanks so much for your very positive feedback. I have not met Tyler Webb, although I think that when I was one of the 12 semifinalists in the 2013 National Tpt. Competition, he was one as well. I ended up not going to NTC, due to a prior commitment at the Kennedy Center, so that's why I didn't meet him, but maybe next time!
Damn man, I'm lead tenor at my high school jazz band and i don't think our lead trumpet player has the brass chops you have, keep on jazzing the world up man.
You're very kind....thank you so much!!
Thank so much... :)
Thanks for writing! The headphones are called "Bose QuietComfort 15".
@skaterman1112foru It's a Yamaha Shew 8310Z, and the flugel is a CarolBrass CFL-6200-GSS-SLB.
You're very kind! Thank you...
I play a Carolbrass flugel regularly, and I play a Yamaha Shew 8310Z trumpet regularly.
Thanks for your kind words. Right now, I'm happy with my mouthpiece, but maybe one day I'll try what you've suggested.
That's absolutely marvelous, particularly the version of Daahoud selected was from Clifford's Pacific Jazz session which was arranged by Jack Montrose, and recorded a month before the better known Emarcy recording.
I LOVE THE SOUND YOU HAVE LIL MAN KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK YOU DOING I LOVE IT BIG TIME.
Hey thanks!
you've got to be kidding. this is just crazy good!
Thank YOU!!
@CheezyAssVideos I play a Yamaha Shew 8310Z trumpet, with a Yamaha Miyashiro 1S mouthpiece, and a CarolBrass CFL-6200-GSS-SLB flugelhorn with a Jet Tone mouthpiece.
Well, thank you!!
thanks for replying, that really means alot. I am actually a junior in high school and hope to major in trumpet performance and jazz studies. You're awesome and you should post videos of what your everyday practice is, that would be extremely helpful. If not, then that's okay you still rock
love the clifford brown transcription!!!
Your technical maturity and how you play is a credit to your (your?) Mentors. Congratulations. If one day you want to vacation in Europe, Switzerland? You should think at the Montreux Jazz Festival. You have your place. Lots of fun to listen to you. And sorry for my bad english!
Thanks again so much for your kind words! I played at Montreux with the Berkeley JazzSchool Studio Band when I was in high school, and it would of course be wonderful to play there again!
bigeyezzzzzzz
Oh! You already know the Montreux Jazz then! If you allow me, I shall transmit to the organizaton of the Montreux Jazz Festival just some of your videos link.
Christophe Racat
That would be great!! Perhaps you could share some of my more recent videos. Thanks so much!
Marciak!
wow this is fantastic!
Jack Pakela Thanks so much. Such memories...
yeah man!
@oneandonIy Thanks very much for your very kind words!!
this boy is special...
Amazing man! What I love most about your playing (in that its different from others) is your smooth tone, vs. the very edgy tone most other trumpet players get. I play jazz trombone, and this video inspired me to go practice! ahhaha
Good stuff. I'm a trumpet player and this video held me right to the end. Yep, Clifford is in there.
Thank you so much!!
Thank you so much!
@mzbab Thanks so much...I really appreciate your kind comments.
Thanks so much...I'm continually working on doing exactly what you said!
Thanks for writing....some of the tracks are Hal Leonard, some are Aebersold, and my producer, Michael Miller, edits and/or alters them to work better for whatever the purpose might be. The mic is a Neumann U67 made in 1966...it is a GREAT mic!!
@s93lnknprk Transcribing my solos? Wow, that's an amazing compliment! The backing track for "Billie's Bounce" is from Hal Leonard Vol. 26 "Charlie Parker" book, which includes a CD. My producer added a few empty bars and then a bass line to the beginning, so I could play mostly-unaccompanied for the first verse, and he also sped up the track a bit. "Easy Living" comes from the playalong CDs that can be purchased for the Hal Leonard Real Book Vol. 1, 6th Edition. We slowed that track down.
Thanks for your kind words. I was 16 when I recorded this audition.
@beChoiii Hey, thanks!! The results were announced earlier than expected - April 12th is when everyone was notified.
@clskmstg Thanks for writing again, and I certainly did have a great summer, all capped by performing yesterday in three different groups at the Monterey Jazz Festival! The groups were: the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, the Jazzschool Studio Band, and the Chase Morrin Group. And now I go back to Berklee. Enjoy getting out your horn and paying some dues, or better yet: playing some blues!
Goals af hahahaha This is amazing!
Wow, I almost forgot about this video from four years ago. Thanks for your kind words!
Mind Blown
@MMJ420Gardener Wow, what an amazing comment. Thank you! You make me want to practice even more than I already do so I can even come close to living up to your words!
OMGGGGGG ur ideas! so solid, such swing man!!!!
Killing Sir!
Wow! Killing recording bro!
Josh man nice work man! You are an excellent player bro ! Keep up the good work bro !
@tpthash1029 Thanks for writing. The trumpet is a Yamaha 8310Z Shew model...not gold, just brass!
The trumpet is a Yamaha 8310Z (Bobby Shew model), and the flugel is a CarolBrass CFL-6200-GSS-SLB. If you're interested in the flugel, you can contact their their US distributor, Doug Teeter, in California at 1-559 436-5247 or 1-559 301-0858. I am fortunate to be sponsored by them.
@LearningWitness I continue to be amazed at all the wonderful feedback being sent to me. I still have a lot of work ahead of me before I'd feel fully ready to start giving advice, but I can at least tell you that, for developing tone, I do LOTS of long tones (holding notes for as long as possible, while watching a digital tuner to get the pitch centered), and for improv, I practice all sorts of jazz scales & licks given to me by Dann Zinn and Clark Terry. Thank you, and I hope this helps.
Rockin!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@zorb350 It's a Neumann U67 mic - a great tube mic made in 1966, which records trumpet beautifully.
KOOL!!!
@clskmstg I can't begin to tell you how much your words mean to me, and I hope to one day live up to all you see in me. Thank you so much for taking the time to write...you really made my day!
Super!👏🎺🐰
First video on youtube that I see with no dislikes! Anyways you're frkn amazing...
The mic is a Neumann U67, made in 1966. It's a GREAT microphone!!
DAMN!!! You're killer bro! I'm a Jazz Trumpet player myself, but like, NO WHERE near that good. Man keep up the great work!
StarcallerSolois Thanks so much for your really nice message. That 2011 audition seems like forever ago!! Here's to all good trumpeting ahead for you. Between doing transcriptions (by ear) of your favorite solos, doing long tones, and practicing several times a day for a total of around 4 or more hours, you should make a lot of progress!
@cdersh Thanks so much...!
excellent trumpet player and a great jazz musician
Thanks so much! I've still got lots of work to do, but it's great to get such positive feedback along the way :)
@averythepokemonking Thanks for your kind words. I don't know where you can get the sheet music of "Easy Living" for free. I got it from my Hal Leonard REAL BOOK (the 6th edition, which I bought last year).
beautiful swing
@s93lnknprk The track is from "Vol 53 - Clifford Brown" by Jamey Aebersold.
freakin awesome. I hope to be half as good as you. True inspiration man
Sorry for the delay in answering. The arrangement of "Easy Living" is a playalong track from the Hal Leonard Real Book Vol. 1, 6th Edition. They sell CDs with tracks to many of the tunes in the book. The only change I made to the "Easy Living" track is that I slowed it down just a bit. Hope that helps...!
@peytonjmusic I use a Yamaha 8310Z (Shew) trumpet, with a Yamaha Miyashiro 1S mouthpiece. Hope that helps...
great job man! congratulations!
I enjoyed billies bounce I have played that piece myself for alto saxophone and its quite enjoyable, wonderful playing as well keep it up man.
Thank you!
Wow your great man!