[TPIN] MF Band

[Tim Phillips]

You know, the greatest pleasure I have is playing young trumpet players 
who only know the stuff MF did after 1980, the stuff he did in the 50s.  
One, who aspires to be a jazz player, had to pick up his jaw after I 
played him the Jam Session with Clarke, Clifford and MF.  He had no idea 
MF could play jazz (and had never heard of Clarke or Clifford).  Of 
course, he knew where his bread was buttered and even though there 
are/were people who played higher than him, not many people come close 
to having the energy and excitement he could get from his sound.  Three 
More Foxes is one of my favorite old MF things - and there are a LOT of 
recordings of him doing that chart with different people.

I think there is a generation waiting to be turned on to this music... 
we just have to expose them to it :)

Tim Phillips
Trumpet Instructor, Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory
iplatrpt at unifourbrass.org
http://www.unifourbrass.org

Rich Willey wrote:
> --- Norman Kniese <nlk3550 at webtv.net> wrote:
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>> Any one have any info on what the members are domg now?
>> Amy rumers about the band carrying on?
>>
>>                     Pete
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> Last I heard, they've all decided to go in a new direction and play bass
> trumpet. I knew they'd come around eventually.
>
> But seriously, do you realize how many former MF band members are still around
> and working? Seems like just about every other musician I run into is an MF
> alum.
>
> Think they'll ever do an MF tribute concert that's *not* a high-note contest?
> That'd be a first! I'd like to hear that, actually. I wonder if I'm the only
> one?
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