The softer side of El Zorro -- a sampling of sultry ballads to put you in the mood. Mood for what?  Well, that's up to you my friend.

A Flight of Ballads - De El Zorro

Autumn Leaves

A cool track I found years ago and had to get the very technical Brecker Brothers styled licks under my fingers -- and chops.  I recorded this and other tunes like it because it's so DIFFERENT than the usual stuff trumpet players play.

This was  a PITA to record. It was the early days of DIY digital recording on laptops. I was using a super slow (by today's standards) Compaq and it's internal sound card with a simple condense mic to record all this stuff.  It had a wicked latency (delay) of about 1/4 second I had anticipate all my entrances to account for the latency.

Brecker Brother Heavy Metal Be Bop Stylings

WARNING! TURN DOWN THE SOUND FIRST and remove your headphones until you've got the volume turned down.

Outta all the music I can make on this piece of brass pipe, it's the high notes that gets trumpet players jazzed (pun intended)... probably because it's wicked hard to do, and to do well.

Yeah, there's a triple C in there somewhere!

I am playing more ballads on flugelhorn now with the remaining brain cells I haven't killed off playing in the double and triple registers.

Autumn Leaves

El Zorro de la Trompeta

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