TBJ182: Jeffrey Curnow
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On This Episode of The Brass Junkies:
How proud the three of us are for figuring out how to get on the same Zoom call
How playing in a full-time touring quintet is basically like living together and can feel like a reality show
The similar approach that Sam and Rolf shared on how Empire should play
When the mics came on for a recording session you either knew your part or didn’t which helped to focus everyone even between sessions
Rolf’s vision of walking onstage and leveling the place and how that shaped the entire artistic trajectory of Empire Brass
That time when Lance told a radio interviewer that he used be an astronaut
That time when Rolf woke Jeff up at 8:00 am and he was suddenly on his way to a radio interview where he ended up playing Guns N’ Roses
The Empire Brass Seminar and the profound impact it had on so many people and how that hit home for Jeff when former EBS student Jen Montone joined him in the Dallas Symphony
The intense attention to detail you need to play in a professional chamber ensemble
Getting your musical ideas to the back of the hall
Why you always have to have a musical opinion, go out on stage and make people feel something
That time when Andrew was playing a gig with Marty Hackleman in Mexico and made a toast that had Marty staring a hole in him
How all the time he had on the road with Empire led to a rekindled love of cartooning
The parallels between his detail-oriented approach to both cartooning and music
His process for making cartoons for NPR and The Wall Street Journal
How he and Mark Gould collaborated on Orchestra Confidential
Links:
Mark Gould’s book illustrated by Jeff Orchestra Confidential
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