TBJ187: Jack Burt
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On This Episode of The Brass Junkies:
Jack’s Etude a Day during the early days of stay-at-home in the pandemic and how it brought him closer to the trumpet community
His process for learning the etudes
Telling his students that any video they make or recital they give is just a snapshot
Why you should share lots of snapshots
Jack’s definition of nerves
Red Light Fever and how it changes our breath and our approach to the music
Inoculating yourself from nerves and self-talk when performing
The setup he settled on for recording his etude a day
The origins of Jack’s sabbatical project called “Talking Over the Music”
His conversations with Michael Sachs, Tom Rolfs, Dave Bilger, Gabor Tarkovi
How trumpet playing has changed since World War II
The homogenization of the sound of orchestras and military bands
That time Andrew accidentally shut the lights off in the middle of a Ray Still master class
Jack’s stunned reaction to the first time he saw Mnozil Brass ( “I didn’t know you were allowed to do that”) and how that inspired him on the spot to travel to Austria to get to know them
How the fact that they are world-class musicians is almost secondary to what you experience at a Mnozil show
Jack casually drops that he lived next to Jaco Pastorius when he was a kid and listened to him practice
The James Stamp routine that Jack created for himself that he’s been doing for three decades that made everything on the trumpet easier
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