[Trombone-l] Teacher?

[Earl Needham]

At 04:37 PM 11/18/2005, Earl Needham wrote:
>At 02:49 AM 11/17/2005, Charles Levine wrote:
>>Who was the best teacher you ever had?  Why?
>
>         Experience.
>
>         That's the only one I ever listened to enough, sad to say.
>
>         Earl

         All kidding aside, there is one teacher I had that really stands 
out in my memory -- Joseph Bellamah.  He was a trumpet player, but he 
taught all of us so much about phrasing, subdividing, and dynamics.  When I 
knew him, he was band director at Texas A&I University in Kingsville, 
Texas, also directing the jazz ensemble and teaching privately.  I think he 
also had some classroom time, but that's a little fuzzy after 30 years!

         See:

         http://www.tamuk.edu/music/faculty/Bellamah/index.shtml

         http://www.tmea.org/061_PBM/HOF/html/054_Bellamah.htm

         http://www.tamuk.edu/news/archive/arch98/october/jalisco.html

         Earl


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