Bill chase transcriptions6/24/2023 ![]() The Woody Herman song in the video is “El Toro Grande” the Chase tune is “Swanee River”. We can replace a President, but I haven’t heard another player just like Bill Chase, or a group like Chase, yet. That made all the headlines, but in my heart, losing Bill Chase was the real story. The only other noteworthy news that day in August of 1974 was that Richard Nixon resigned. Bill Chase was a part of that evolution until he was taken from us on August 9, 1974. It’s all connected in the evolution of music. You can hear Maynard when you hear Bill Chase play, and Maynard was influenced by those before him like Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge, Harry James, Bunny Berigan, etc. I heard that he even got fired from Maynard’s band because he couldn’t play high enough, so he changed equipment, worked harder at it, and emerged as a great lead player with Woody a few years later.Įvery musician who has ever played has been influenced by someone before them. Numerous Chase customers posted on social media that their rent or bill payments were taken out of their accounts twice and reported long customer service hold times. Everyone always remembers the first time they hear Maynard play live! But it changed Bill’s life forever.īill even went on to play lead in Maynard’s band and in Kenton’s years later before making his name in the Woody Herman band. Maynard was still playing the featured trumpet chair in Kenton’s band and from that night on Bill wanted to play like Maynard Ferguson. Maynard could do it, but could Bill? Most trumpet players could not handle a book like that night after night.īill started as a classical trumpet player in life until, in 1951, he went to hear a Stan Kenton concert. The book was so hard to play every night that I wondered how Bill would be able to continue at that pace as he got older. The white blood cells of the immune system fight and destroy pathogens. I did hear Chase live in Fort Worth at Haltom High School six months before the plane crash that killed Bill and half of the band. How does the immune system work together with the circulatory system to function properly A. I was just too young to be able to go hear them. I never heard Bill play live with the band, and it’s my loss. Woody used his trumpet section like a firing squad and the band had the power of an explosion when they let it loose. He had an energy that propelled the band like no other. When the Woody Herman band was winning best band awards in 1963 it’s no accident Bill was playing lead. You can hear the beginnings of Chase when you listen to some of the Woody Herman recordings. Bill played lead with Woody, and wrote tunes that featured the trumpet section and himself. I’ve include two tunes in the video, that showcase Bill’s playing and writing. There will probably never be another group like this again. It’s the last time we have heard a great rock band with four trumpets who play the lead. After his death, Maynard had the place to himself as he toured and played at college campuses.Įvery band and DCI group played “Get It On” at some point, which was the hit tune by Chase. His rock group was just getting famous and he was becoming as popular as Maynard Ferguson with the younger crowd. ![]() I’ll never forget hearing the news that day and thinking about what a tragic loss to the trumpet world. Sign in Sign in to Chase Online or the Chase Mobile ® app and sign up for Chase Online Bill Pay. Bill was the great lead trumpet player with Woody Herman and others, and the leader of the rock group, Chase. Such a pity all those stars aligned before the dawn of smart phones and social media.Today reminds me that Bill Chase was killed in a plane crash 41 years ago. This was a memorable moment during a really special time in my life, with the greatest cast you’ve never heard of the greatest ‘Blast!’ cast of them all. Later on, the engineer handed me a CD-R… Surprise! He recorded it!!! And I’m so grateful he did. It was just me, the sound engineer and a stage manager, on our lunch break, so I only played for a few minutes. BILL CHASE LEAD TRUMPET TRANSCRIPTIONS Review by Kurt Thompson 4,845 views 36 Dislike Share Save TRUMPETSIZZLE 17.4K subscribers DON'T CLICK THIS BILL CHASE. Art Farmer, Bill Hardman, Bix Beiderbecke, Blue Mitchell, Booker Little. ![]() Spontaneous art made of psychedelic, rhythmic trails on my every note? YES, PLEASE! That first time felt magical so much power and potential. JAZZ TRUMPET SOLOS - AUDIO FOR SOLO TRANSCRIPTIONS. There was an unaccompanied trumpet solo where I used the “Echo Chamber” effect, pumping through the theatre in surround sound! The first time I ever got to test out the effect was exhilarating! I tried out different shapes, tonalities, extended techniques, played rhythmic games, quoted Bill Chase, because and actually stumbled upon some pretty cool stuff. In 2003, I was in a ‘Blast!’ sequel called CyberJam in London. ![]()
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