[Trombone-l] Fwd: Mark McDunn (Was:51 positions of the trombone)?

[billdin@comcast.net]

Hi Tom and everyone, 



I studied with Mark McDunn for about 2 years when I attended DePaul in the early 60's. He was really a good guy to study from because he not only knew the horn, but he knew the music business too. I can remember quite a few lessons when I never got the horn out of the case, he just talked about his experiences in the recording business in Chicago and other places. Mark was an excellent "politician", in the musical sense of the word, and he gave me a lot to think about when I began to do a lot of session work in the 70's and 80's. 



His 51 or 76 position thoughts were not taken terribly seriously by most of his students, but I think much of his intent was to get you used to the idea that all the notes on the horn did not lay in the 7 basic positions, and I must say that, until I met him, I was not terribly conscious of that fact. Later, when I read Chris Leuba's book about intonation, Mark's theories began to make a lot more sense to me. 



I was honored to be a member of the trombone ensemble that played for Mark's funeral and I will always remember him with fondness. 



Hey Tom: I played with Bobby Christian's band too, I think in the early 70's. I remember that one of his job's was the highest paying gig I ever had, because the train (!) we were riding on to Kansas City piled up about 20 miles out of Chicago, and I hit the seat in front of me very hard with the bridge of my nose. We never made the gig, but I did very well (for the time) on the legal settlement. Hey...I could use a few more of those kind of gigs right now! 



Bill Dinwiddie 

billdin at comcast.net 





    
----- Forwarded Message ----- 
From: "Tom Izzo" <contrabasstrombone at yahoo.com> 
To: "Trb. List" <trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>, "Eliezer Aharoni" <eanogmus at netvision.net.il> 
Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2009 9:21:51 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central 
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Mark McDunn (Was:51 positions of the trombone)? 



--- On Wed, 2/4/09, Eliezer Aharoni <eanogmus at netvision.net.il> wrote: 

> From: Eliezer Aharoni <eanogmus at netvision.net.il> 
> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Mark McDunn (Was:51 positions of the trombone)? 
> To: "Trb. List" <trombone-l at server5.samford.edu> 
> Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 8:44 PM 
> Tom Izzo Wrote: 
> > Mark McDunn, (no Dr, though). Was a prof/instructor at 
> DePaul Univ for 
> > many years, lived in River Forest, made more TV & 
> radio commercials in Chi 
> > than any other Trombonist. (His blowing down the slide 
> filled with water 
> > on Charlie the Tuna commercials is a fond memory). 
> > He wrote a book on the "76 fundimental positions 
> of the slide Trombone". I 
> > didn't remember a 51, though. 
> > He arranged many Trombone Quartets, wrote or co-wrote 
> many elementary & 
> > secondary solos, good at all contests, etc., died 
> about 5 yrs ago. 
> > That's about all I can think of off the top of my 
> head. 
> > 
> > Tom 
> Just recalled the name of his LP. Its called Trombone 
> Concepts. 

Yep, that's it! 

> He also composed and arranged (with Bobby Christian) 
> "Vincentian Trombone 
> Mass" (in the spirit of St. Vincent De Paul) for 
> Trombone quartet. 
> 

Yes, that's where I remember MM from. I played Bass Trombone & Tuba in Bobby Christian's band in the 60's. 

Tom 

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