Here’s another article for you, if you please. Thanks for the feedback on recent postings, ladies and gentlemen. You are wise, kind, and honest. Nice to know you.

This article was written more than 10 years ago. Very hard for me to swallow that fact. We don’t grow younger, eh? This was published in the ITA Journal and a number of other publications and it really received a lot of positive feedback.

I meant to include this one in the last batch….an oversight on my part, my apologies. It’s very interesting to read this again after so may experiences have accumulated since I wrote the article. I’ve spent an awful lot of time on both sides of the screen, and it’s difficult to follow your own advice, isn’t it? But this was an article initially intended as a personal journal entry. It began as a note to myself, because even in 1997 I knew that I’d be on the other side of the screen soon enough.

I want to thank my friend Tim for encouraging me to post it here. Tim is one of the finest musicians I have EVER known and he claims that the article effected him deeply as a young player in high school. Tim, even if you’re lying about that, I love you brother.

*PS- this is NOT Episode 100. Check back in just a few days and I will have a delicious trombonistic treat for all of us. I wanted to do something special for the 100, but I had no idea who was gonna come on camera with us. You’re gonna be blown away, believe me. I was!

PPS- this posting comes to you live from the stunning (and cheap!) Sunset Inn in Augusta, GA. I’m here for a few days to open the new season with the Augusta Symphony. I’ll be playing a lot of 2nd Trombone here this year with Brad Edwards to my right and David Lynch to my left. Good times. You might be interested to know that Dr. Edwards (of Episode 88) played a most spectacular Bolero this evening! Bravo Zulu, soldier. That’s always a cause for joy in trombonedom, is it not ladies and gentlemen? Let’s all raise a glass and toast Brad’s and every other lovely rendition of that pesky charmer.

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