[TPIN] Alison Balsom

[bodeen67 at triton.net]

Hi all, I show my support by buying CDs. I have Mike Vax. I listened to
one of Ms. Balsom's Cds and it was just so so. My daughter liked it so I
gave it away. Another real famous trumpet player got snooty with me. I
could not read his autograph. It was like I inconvienced him or something.
Lucky for me I didn't have any recordings of his or I would have used them
for coffee cup coasters. You know, being flip in the end effects the
bottom line. Everyone is a good trumpet player so why put up with any
uppity behaviour, especially from a recording artist? Maybe girls in the
UK buy them. Me, I would walk over hot coals to hear Doc Severinsen. When
I meet him, everytime he was professional and a warm and caring fun guy.
So the problem is easily solved, put your coffee cup on it. BTW, have you
ever met Maynard Ferguson? I shook his hand, got him to autograph my CD
... I will remember his smile forever. He was such a nice guy. Maynard
would have replied. In a few years we will all be gone but, Maynard's
music will be timeless. Want to bet who gets remembered?

Best wishes,
Terry Rach

>Hi
>
> I was in the process of constructing a suitably frivolous reply to a
> previous message when this one came in.
>
>>I'm saying that some of Alison's entourage (or even Alison herself)
>>may think that Mike and other American trumpeters are (as you put it)
>>low rent -- not that they are in fact.  I certainly do NOT think so,
>>and I did not intend to imply that I did.
>
> In my view, from a mere lack of reply that is a vast leap of judgement.
> Certainly, to suggest that it might be the opinion of Ms Balsom herself is
> hypothetical.
>
> It may be, as a suggestion, that in the years of hard work it has taken
> for her to become an international classical soloist, she has not taken
> the time to listen to the plethora of big band/jazz/dixie trumpeters that
> we know are out there. It may be that she isn't aware of British players
> in the same style. It may even be possible that she isn't aware of Mike
> Vax! I think that to infer that this situation encapsulates her opinion of
> American trumpeters is extreme!
>
> If Alison e-mailed Wynton - could you guarantee a reply?
>
>>The world of trumpet playing is much larger and more varied than the
>>limited, parochial horizons that some from the Island or the
>>Continent may have.
>
> Yea it is! But that sounds bitter!
>
> Cheers
>
> Geoff
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