[Myrddin]

I started playing trumpet in 4th grade. I was a huge fan of Herb Alpert and the TJ Brass along with Chicago. The sheet music that I could obtain to play the music never matched what was actually being performed. I finally have a fluegelhorn that I hope will be kinder to my 69 year old lungs with lower back pressure. Of course, I have Chuck Mangione's classic performances as sheet music.

The Flight of the Bumblebee and Zorba the Greek are couple very technical pieces that would be interesting to hear executed using MIDI.

[Excellence]

I had a friend who was the chair of the music department at a college. Somehow, he had managed to go his entire life without hearing Vince Guaraldi’s rendition of Linus and Lucy. He bought the sheet music but wasn’t playing it correctly. I, who can’t even read music, had to show him. Some things just don’t manifest onto sheet music, and that probably goes double for jazz. He ended up playing the piece in his class, and he said the students just went nuts. It increased his “cool” factor with his students.