Empire Brass in Venezuela

[dokuganryu0801]

oh.. amazing.

[moninjr]

didn't Mark Lawrence played with them too? wasn't he the original member in trombone??

[ericofonseca]

Best period of this amazing brass ensemble!!!

[lmaraya]

OK I hope you all are happy now. I just corrected it to say only "legendary" and not original!!!!

[Snerd03]

This is not the original group. The original was called Empire Brass Quintet; they eventually dropped Quintet off the name.

There are 2 original members here: Smedvig and Pilafian. The other original members were Charlie Lewis on trumpet, David Ohanian on French Horn, and I can't remember the trombone player's name, nor can I find it-he was replaced by Scott Hartman.

[itzeds1]

original was Norman Bolter followed by Larry Isaacson

[mhenrikse]

Jeff Curnow was even better as a second trumpet.

[mhenrikse]

IMHO, Smedvig - the best musician to ever play trumpet (compare his version of the Bach Suite #2 to Andre's), Morrison, the only EBQ 2nd player to actually sound good playing next to Smedvig, Hartmann - unbelievable player on those EBQ recordings.

[blugrazn]

Smedvig couldn't carry Andre's case.

[generalbullmoose]

You got that right!! Not to mention he has a large ego, so it seems.

[mhenrikse]

I believe Andre uses a gig bag so you may be right.

[ksturgeo]

Was this around 1988? Great performance by the EBQ that inspired me so much!