The Other Side Of The Bell - A Trumpet Podcast

Freddie Jones is a popular jazz trumpet player and composer in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. With an amazing musical gift, Freddie Jones kicks up the energy of a room a notch or two and thrills a …

Philip Smith, former principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic and professor at the University of Georgia, is our special guest on this episode. Phil discusses his upbringing in the Salvation Ar…

Jennifer Marotta is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Trumpet at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. An active freelance musician based in Los Angeles, she regularly perfo…

Mike Zonshine is our special guest this episode. At the age of 22 Mike Zonshine joined the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra as its Principal Trumpet Player-a job he held for almost a decade when the orche…

Daniel Rosenboom is a creative and prolific trumpet artist, composer, producer, and Los Angeles studio musician. He has released many critically acclaimed albums under his own name, as well as his ba…

Our special guest this episode is Greg Wing. Greg serves as Professor of Trumpet at Morehead State University, holds a Master of Music degree in Trumpet Performance from the School of Music at Indian…

Jon Faddis began playing the trumpet at the age of eight, inspired by an appearance of Louis Armstrong on the Ed Sullivan Show. Three years later, his trumpet teacher Bill Catalano (an alumnus of the…

Jazz trumpeter Marquis Hill is our special guest on this episode of The Other Side of the Bell. The New York Times described him as a “dauntingly skilled trumpeter,” and the Chicago Tribune asserts t…

Trumpeter Pete Olstad is our special guest this episode. Pete Olstad is a SoCal native who earned a performance/educator degree at Berklee College of Music in Boston. During his student days, he plac…

Glenn Appell is a versatile musician and educator who has performed on trumpet, flugelhorn, harmonica and Native American Flute in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 30 years. He has toured, perform…

Alan Ware is our special guest on The Other Side of the Bell. Alan was born in 1937 in Wichita, Kansas. In 1955 Alan joined the Army after which he enrolled at The Berklee School of Music in Boston. …

Grammy Award winning trumpet player Randy Brecker is the special guest this episode. Randy discusses his studies at Indiana University with William Adam and David Baker, as well as his varied career …

To celebrate 4 years of The Other Side of the Bell, we are having a double episode featuring Caleb Hudson and Chris Coletti, the two trumpets of the famed Canadian Brass. The show notes for this epis…

James Thompson is Professor of Trumpet at the renowned Eastman School of Music. He came to this position having played Principal Trumpet in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra since September 1990. He has…

Phil Driscoll -- Grammy winning trumpeter, singer, and composer -- is our special guest this episode. Phil talks about his quick rise in the music world, appearing at a young age on many of TV's top …

Ottaviano Cristofoli is our special guest this episode of The Other Side of the Bell. Ottoviano, originally from Udine, Italy, is the principal trumpet with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. His late…

Rashawn Ross, trumpet with The Dave Matthews Band, is our special guest this episode. Rashawn shares is experience growing up on the small Caribbean island of St. Thomas, then expanding his travels t…

This episodes features trumpeter Jeff Purtle, who is the author of Hit it Hard & Wish it Well and is best known for being a protégé of and authority on Claude Gordon. He has also written for The Bras…

Jazz trumpet artist Gianni Marinucci is our special guest on this episode. Gianni has four albums out as leader and is featured on many others. Based in Melbourne, Australia, he has toured many parts…

Frank van der Poel, former solo trumpeter of the Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy for 31 years and author of the trumpet method book "Less is More", is our special guest on this episode. Fra…