Bill Chase - Close Up Tight

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[2009EIB]

@TheTheTrumpeter I am a trumpeter from Indianapolis, and I do have "lead chops" The thing that you need to do to reach those notes is re-evalute your mouthpiece placement. Make sure that the top part of your top lip and bottom part of your bottom lip is inside the mouthpiece, and keep the aperture loose. Keep your lips together to make a "P" syllable. People tend to lose it when their embrochure spreads or their mouthpiece drops and it is sitting on the top lip. Hope this helps.

[TheRhythmmeister]

Sooo good to see rare footage of this line up of the band. I first heard 'Pure Music' shortly after it's release way back in the 70s and i was totally blown away. If John Emma had been spared instead of being taken so early in his life he could have been a guitar great. He was only a young lad when he died. Rest in peace Bill, John, Wally and Walter, your music lives on.

[rockinrandyprs]

I had the pleasure of opening for the band CHASE in 1971 in Chicago. What a mis-match of styles on the boooking agents part!! We were a pop-brass band in the style of Chicago, Tower of Power, Cold Blood, etc. and these guys were a total Jazz/Rock group which was unheard of at that time. I was totally blown away by these guys and I'll never forget that to this day. To me, Bill Chase was the Jimi Hendrix of the trumpet. Not only as an inovator, but as a total monster and master of his instrument.

[117giltspur]

Bill Chase is great! Too bad not many people know about him or appreciate great talent.

[2009EIB]

@soulfire2588 I completely understand having larger lips. 3 of my students have had the same issues. My suggestion for that is to purchase a larger diameter cupped mouthpiece with a tighter throat.  I do agree with the wilktone videos, I just have an issue with putting metal on the softest tissue on your face...lol! Good luck! Would love to hear you play sometime!

[soulfire2588]

@2009EIB I totally agree with what you say about spreading the embouchure. However, I have naturally large lips and my mouthpiece always sits on the red of my top lip. I have lead chops and have played with and had lessons from several well-known top-flight professionals including the great Joey Pero. This is rare and generally not recommended, but some people can effectively play this way with no problem. Check out wilktone's videos. He's brass professor at WCU.

[acfinney1]

@JohnnieDorman Well, he also took Bix and Bunny.

[shuntissimo]

Agreed.Different creatures of different flavours! They were both originally important parts of all-time great big bands (Herman (Chase) and Kenton (Ferguson)) and then went their separate cheesy 70s ways, which they needed to do cos the big band/jazz orchestra was dying as a commercially viable entity at that stage. Both legends of course (he says cos he doesn't was to get burned at the stake by legions of Maynard religious freaks), but I prefer Bill and his band's juice.Fun not screaming,dammit

[JohnnieDorman]

In my opinion, Bill Chase was the greatest trumpet player that ever lived. As a trumpet player, I followed Chase all over the South when he played there. Never will forget his concert at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. That was about 1973. Chase's prowess and power with his trumpet has never been surpassed. I have missed him sorely ever since his death in 1974. God always seems to take the best at such a young age. In my heart of trumpet playing hearts, he will never be forgotten. JD

[channelonesuite]

Kind of reminds me of a Don Ellis Orchestra arraangement. I never really listened to the rest of the LP other than GET IT ON.

[channelonesuite]

Always love reading comments from jazz players with big egos, arguing and cussing each other out, during their "dick measuring contests." Hilarious. GET IT ON !

[maxwellsmart2000]

What a badass =D