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Viewing Tip: “Hot Diggety Dam!”

That’s the name of a piece Italian trumpeter and fluegelhornist Franco Ambrosetti’s quartet played on a Swiss television program in 1977. With him were pianist Hal Galper (USA), bassist Dave Holland (UK) and drummer Daniel Humair (France). Galper accurately describes the performance as “burnin’.”
To see and hear “Hot Diggety Dam!” go to Galper’s web site and scroll down to the daily motion screen. Trumpeters may be fascinated by closeups that show Ambrosetti’s embouchure. It’s off-center. It may be unorthodox, but it works for him.

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Doug is a recipient of the lifetime achievement award of the Jazz Journalists Association. He lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he settled following a career in print and broadcast journalism in cities including New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, San Antonio, … [MORE]

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