by Bill Collins | Oct 28, 2018 | General
Our high school band reunion in Fort Worth at Paschal High School in...
by Bill Collins | Oct 28, 2018 | General
Randy is one of the world’s great woodwind players who lives in Dallas. This was at our high school reunion in 2013 at Paschal High School in Fort Worth,...
by Bill Collins | Oct 28, 2018 | General
John is a great lead trumpet player who teaches now at USC. He was a year ahead of me in high school, and taught me how to read and phrase jazz compositions. This was at our high school band reunion in Fort Worth at Paschal in...
by Bill Collins | Aug 10, 2018 | General
We heard this group in Austin at the One World Theatre on August 3, 2018. They did two, hour and a half high energy shows that night. These are excerpts from the second...
by Bill Collins | Sep 15, 2015 | General
William Alonzo Anderson, known as Cat Anderson (September 12, 1916-April 29, 1981), had a birthday two days ago. Cat became famous in the Duke Ellington Orchestra and was probably the best high note trumpet player in history. I’ll never forget hearing the...
by Bill Collins | Aug 12, 2015 | General
Roy Eldridge had his head turned to say something to Dizzy just when the picture was taken. He felt terrible about that. Roy is over on the right side of the...
