Musicianship (was RE: I'm going to write an Anziowin/scanning interface for filePro...)

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010, Fairlight wrote:
>So anyone else here have a multitrack memory for music?...

Not me.  My primary instrument was trumpet where I only had to
deal with one note at a time (although playing things like Flight
of the Bumblebee there were lots of notes to remember :-).

When I taught myself to play guitar, it was the first time I had
to learn chord structures and harmonies (playing solo trumpet I
didn't have to worry about anything but the main line).

When I was in high school, I thought of being a professional
trumpet player, but figured for every Louie Armstrong, there were
tens of thousands of unemployeed trumpeters.

My last serious involvement in music was between 1966 and April
1968 when I was active in the Left Bank Jazz Society in
Baltimore.  We would bring in musicians every Sunday afternoon to
the Famous Ballroom, and I handled all the audio (with my Revox
A-77 connected to the mixer).  I had my mothers 9-passenger
station wagon, and would chauffer musicians back and forth to the
airport which gave me a chance to meet and talk to folks like
Horace Silver, Coleman Hawkins, and even John Coltrane.  I didn't
do anything with Left Bank after April 1968 when Martin Luther
King was killed where being one of two whites in the club was a
bit uncomfortable (and I had started racing Formula Cars which
didn't leave much spare time on weekends).

Bill
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