Things I say often: I run on feedback
January 22, 2015
This thing I say often “thing” is quite new and a bit personal. It’s very important for me personally and I hope that you like it.
I’ve had the great, but scary, opportunity to play a couple of times under the late James Watson. For any non-brass-players he’s one of the truly great trumpet players of the world, brought up as a wonder boy in the brass band movement. Later in his career he returned and made the world famous Black Dyke Band into a new being - possibly changing what people thought a brass band could be for ever.
Also - he’s know for being very … direct … even mean sometimes during rehearsals. But I fondly remember a lot of things from the hours I got to spend under his direction.
One of the stories he told was about when the...