Friedel Keim

Das große Buch der Trompete

This book about the trumpet and its most important soloists is a treatise on the history of the development of the instrument. But not only that! Exciting stories about male and female trumpeters can be found here, as well as a chapter about the difficult 'high tone blowing' and one about trumpet curiosities. Short biographies of 50 classical trumpeters since the beginning of the 17th century, 10 famous jazz trumpeters and 60 important trumpeters of the underground music as well as a lexical part with 1900 further trumpeters, a bandleader directory and a special discography complete this book to an informative reference work for the specialist and to an interesting reading book for every music lover. Concentrated information and pleasurable reading fun on 860 pages!'