Monday 12 May, 2008
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Monday 12 May, 2008
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Ballads Unlimited 2007-08-01
This album is a re-release of "Bill's Ballads". A nice compilation from lots of different recordings and performances. Thanks goes to those who have let me use the "cuts.". It's just a nice easy listening to the kind of lyrical style of playing that I enjoy!
$20.00 AUD
Play list
Notes from Bill
As a boy, I attended a Salvation Army brass band concert. Most people make fun of the Salvation Army "nickel on the drum" stuff, but it has a truly remarkable heritage of music including the brass band. That afternoon, this young boy heard a man by the name of John Cobb, play a trombone solo with the International Staff Band of The Salvation Army from London, England.
That moment changed my life forever! I was grabbed, smitten, sold on, sold out to the trombone. I looked at my dad and said "get me a trombone!" three times between his "What?" 's. John was one of the premiere professional trombonists in the United Kingdom for many years. The years have passed and through some wonderful meetings in our lives, we are soul mates.
Little did I know, that incredible day, where my life would lead in the coming years, but the trombone has been at the heart and very existence of all things come to pass.
So inspired was I, that my father gave me an Arban's exercise book, and after buying me a third hand Conn trombone, I began to teach myself the art of trombone playing.
When I reached college, I met Paul Tanner, who, through five or six personal meetings, taught me how to get more for my buck in my practice sessions and introduced me to his book "Practice With the Experts." A few short years later I would meet the men within that book who really taught me to play. Dick Noel, Lloyd Ulyate, Dick Nash, Tommy Pedersen, Hoyt (Garage) Bohannon, Joe Howard, George Roberts, Barret O'Hara and a few others.
These were the men that helped me start my career and I was honored to work and learn from them in the beginning of my career. These were my real teachers. One would be a fool to have sat next to these gentlemen and not learned from the life and music. In some ways, this album is a compilation of what each of them brought and gave to me. Their help, friendship, encouragement and knowledge are forever imprinted in my memory and I am much the better for having been able to even know them.
My first encourager as a composer/arranger was my brother, Bruce. He is, in my humble opinion, the best composer there is. He is also the most brilliant man I know and his encouragement started a lot of good stuff. He's a great friend and I love him for all that he is. My later mentors as a composer were David Rose, Lalo Schifrin, Morton Stevens, John Addison, and Stu Phillips.
Though all were very specifically a part of my career and professional progress, none was greater than David Rose. I could write a book about David but space does not allow. Just let me say that David would be an extension of my own great father. He taught me so much about the business and reaffirmed my life convictions. He believed in me and made himself unselfishly available at any time and expecting nothing in return. He was love at its best.
I am, of course, thankful for a great mom and dad, Hal and Ruth, who always gave me unbelievable support, in all things young and old, even when they heard those awful words: "I want to go into the music business!"
This album is a compilation from lots of different recordings and thanks goes to those who have let me use the "cuts."
A special thanks to Bret Richardson, who took some really old stuff and made it sound pretty good. In some cases the end result is far better than what he had to work with.
Oh yeah! Lauren, David and Krissey… I hope this album will make you a little proud of your dear ol' Dad but probably not as proud as he is of you.
Finally… enjoy!
Billy B.
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