[TPIN] “Lasting Change for Trumpeters”

[Ole J. Utnes]

I've just finished an interview with Louis Loubriel about his great book.

One of the questions I asked, was how his book project started:

<quote>
The project started around 1984. My “youth orchestra” in Chicago 
practiced in the same building where Jacobs taught. You could hear every 
word he said from outside the door and every Saturday I would try to get 
as much information as I could. I was amazed on how efficient and 
effective Jacobs was in his lessons. I could also tell, from Jacobs’s 
students I knew in Chicago, that his teaching produced lasting changes.

I kept asking Cichowicz questions about so many of the concepts I had 
heard from Jacobs that, perhaps to get a break from me, he (Cichowicz) 
started loaning me textbooks from his private library. Many of those 
books had been suggested to him by Jacobs. The collection included Percy 
Buck’s Psychology for Musicians (Oxford) and Maxwell’s Psycho-Cybernetics.

For the next fifteen years I read about 800 more books on psychology 
trying to find more answers to my questions and in the late 1990’s I 
took a year sabbatical in Amsterdam (Holland) to put it all together. 
For the next four years I transcribed 150 hours of Jacobs’ lectures, 93 
hours of taped private lessons given by Jacobs, and 15 hours of taped 
interviews with expert trumpet teachers. The result is “Lasting Change 
for Trumpeters”.
</quote>

The whole interview is here:

http://abel.hive.no/trumpet/interview/loubriel/

Ole