Summer 2010

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Bryan Davis is currently back in New York, following a most pleasant week down in Louisville, KY; playing 1st Trumpet for the National Tour of ‘Legally Blonde’. He will be in ‘the city that never sleeps’ until early August, when he heads back over to Austria to play with the LACJO once again, at Schloss Haindorf on August 5th. Bryan will be in Austria for a few days either side of this concert, teaching Trumpet lessons and visiting with friends. There are still a few lesson spots available.

Please check out the information in the Teaching section of the site if you wish to avail yourself of Bryan’s services as a Trumpet teacher for Private Lessons or Clinics, or as a guest artist with your School/College band. Don’t forget that Online Lessons via Webcam are available if you are elsewhere in the US, or indeed the world!

You can find all Bryan Davis’ contact information on the Contact page of this website. He looks forward to hearing from you soon!

We are pleased to announce that Bryan Davis has now joined the Artist Roster on JazzCorner.com – the premier portal for Jazz sites. Big thanks to Lois Gilbert, JazzCorner supremo, for welcoming Bryan to the family. In celebration of that, we will be upgrading and redesigning the site before long. Watch this space…

Looking ahead to the Autumn, Bryan will be returning to Austria again, this time to play with Gansch & Roses on their CD launch tour. The dates are between October 29th and November 3rd – further details on the Schedule page. The early mixes of “Resal”, the new CD, sound terrific – we look forward to sharing further details about it as we have them. Once again, as on the last tour, Bryan and Thomas Gansch will be joined in the trumpet section by Adam Rapa. The gigs will be a lot of fun – if last year is anything to go by. Decide for yourself – here’s a video of Thomas’ Bill Chase Tribute “Der Rock des Trompeters”:

Have a great summer!

A Spot of Spring-Cleaning

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Just a little forewarning that I’ll be doing a little reorganising of the site over the next couple of weeks. There’s a full-blown redesign in the works but first I need to straighten out how some of the site content is put together – partly to simply tidy up but also to take advantage of some of the new features of WordPress which are now available.

The first tweak has already been made; you’ll notice that the “Upcoming Shows” have been added back into the sidebar on the homepage, after a long absence.

Anyway, if anything is weird with the site when you look in, in the next little while, please just check back later. I’ll be tweaking as fast as I can to minimise disruption.

Hitting The Road Again!

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I’m pleased to say I’ll be heading out on the road again in a couple of weeks. I received a call from my good friend Greg Wing yesterday and, as a result, I’m heading down to Louisville, Kentucky; to play “Legally Blonde” at The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts from June 8-13.

Should be fun to get back to a week’s theatre work again, after so long. I haven’t played this particular show before but I hear good things about it. It’ll be fun finding out!

Joining JazzCorner!

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Exciting news! This weekend I’m joining the Artist roster at JazzCorner.com! In the first instance, I’ll be switching this site over to their webhosting; my apologies if you experience some problems visiting it over the next couple of days. Later on, once I have my information together, I’ll be added to the roster listing on their site. Very cool!

I’m also going to take this opportunity to have a bit of spruce up around here. More about that soon…

Big thanks to JazzCorner supremo Lois Gilbert for accepting me to her Jazz family!

Breaking Radio Silence

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Just a quick post – as usual, it’s been far too long since the last. Life here in NYC has been continuing apace as ever. I’ve been keeping busy in the past few weeks helping out over at JazzCorner.com, updating sites and working on some other projects. It’s a fun gig which allows me to exercise the technical side of my brain while also still affording me practice time; I work mostly from home – it is online work, after all.

I’m pleased to say that I’ve also been teaching, both online and off-. In addition, I’ve actually been playing occasionally as well! I’ve been rehearsing with Bill Lee and his Natural Spirit Orchestra for an upcoming concert, and I even got a call for a salsa gig a couple of weeks ago. Much fun was had!!

Things are, as I expected, still a good deal quieter than they might have been, had I stayed in England but, given the recent political machinations there, I think I’m better off out of harms way. The phone is starting to ring so it’s only a matter of time before I’ll be playing more regularly again.

I’m still planning to be back in Austria with the LACJO in August, and I’ve just heard from Thomas Gansch to confirm some dates with him in late October/early November! Adam Rapa is planning to be back with us too, so that’ll be an extra fun trip!

Meantime it’s back to practicing and coding! Among my projects is a planned redesign of this site – more about that, and everything else, soon….

BD