I had the good fortune to see Chase in the summer of 1974, shortly before Bill's tragic death. A HS senior and trumpet player myself, I grabbed some buddies and drove to Kalamazoo to see Chase at Don Neal's Mr. T-Bone. We arrived early and picked a table literally six feet from Bill as he played. Bill's trumpet raised high in the air, he started off with "Open Up Wide". What a pure sound! Chase played music from three albums (Chase, Ennea, Pure Music), plus other selections including a four-trumpet rendition of McCarthur Park, which blew our socks off! The best part? During the break Bill talked with us about his playing style, and gave advice on mouthpiece selection. It was a night to remember!

Your chops and astonishing range are just as good as, if not better than, that of Jon Faddis

Thank you for sharing your practice methods. It's fantastic to get info like this from a consummate pro. It's so easy to reinforce bad habits when you don't start with a good warm up and end with a warm down. I am a comeback player and Stamp exercises work really well for me, especially connecting middle and high registers and producing a more open tone up high. I've been working with PDFS and it's definitely time to get the Stamp book. The Caruso too. I love warming down with Caruso. No matter what may go wrong during the day the warm down helps the chops to relax and get set for the next day.

Omg!

He's still got the juice! I'm not a trumpet player, but I have some knowledge of the instrument. I must say it's good to see there is at least one person on KZbin playing high notes properly with a good, full centered tone. I have seen so many "experts" doing tutorials on how to play in the upper register, but all they know how to do is pinch out puny notes with no full sound. Mark is the real deal and not a poser, unlike the rest of them I have seen.

well done 👏 my friend..Vaughn 🎺

Big fan of yours Mark. Saw you in concert in Palm Beach area about 20 years ago and was fantastic!

Nice job Mark !

Wow bro, that's awesome 😍

It's so wonderful to see you Sir. I've heard many people try that C but it's nothing as clear as you just played it. Please keep up the great job and continue to share anything you do. Again, it's great to see and hear you even in a short clip. 👍🏻🎺

Well, that is impressive indeed…

Only getting stronger💪

Always amazing Mark

Yeyy, it's great to see you again! ;)

i think that is the best sounding tripple c i have ever heard. wow impressive stuff

Time off?? Come on man. With great power, comes great responsibility. I'm pretty sure you were bit by a little Maynard spider when you were a child. 😂😂😂

always great to hear you and hear from you, mark! thank you!

Beast!!

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😂😂.

Nice Mark! And centered! Hope you're doing well. 👍🎺🎶

Oh my god

That was amazing

WICKED! 😁

Mark you have to put together a jazz rock band now a Bill Chase 2.0 and just get crazy you are a badass just like the great Bill Chase was in the 1970s i would love it be well sir

🎺⚡💥🔥👍🪽👼💨🦅❤️‍🔥

Mark the Best!!!!🎺🔥🔥🔥💥⚡🪽💨🦅

Mark, you're absolutely incredible. I took up trumpet as a 4th grader in 1984 when my older brother played Maynard Ferguson's Rocky. When we got to high school, our band director played Future Corps for us. Freshman year we got to see you live in Epcot, and it blew my mind. Thank you for continuing to blow my mind and that 🎺 for decades! I listen to the Adam Carolla podcast every day, and I wonder how many listeners know when he says Get it On where this comes from. I know. You know. And this tribute is legendary. Thank you, from the bottom of my embouchere.

Unglaublich😮👍🎺

Mark you are RIGHT THERE with Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie... WITHOUT a doubt!!!🎺🎺🎺🎺

UNBELIEVABLE Mark!!!! Your playing is PHENOMENAL!!! I am a pop songwriter who just recently taken up Trumpet playing strictly for my own pleasure and escape... the opening lick you played in the P.E.T.E evaluation video a few years back is absolutely MIND BLOWING!!! 🙏 THANK YOU for sharing your beautiful talent for all to enjoy... God is MUSIC!!!🎺🎺🎺🎺🙏

All I say Wow your a bad mother you know what mean

Great spin on the classic. This shit goes hard!!

And on a Schilke, of course! Excellent job! Sparks in Daytona

Mark Zauss is simply a beast. Wow

Let's get serious. What diameter mouthpiece is in this video. jw

Brilliant!

The circular lip muscle he was working with the large, flat end, is the Orbicularis Oris. The cheek muscles worked on the small end are the left and right Buccinators. There are other muscles used but those 2 are the main ones.

Good gawd, Man! 🤣😂 Wow!

Hi Mark. I'm just new to your site's. Your warm up looks challenging, also I have limited time to spend practicing. Could this warm up, or parts of it suffice as a stand alone "mini practice session"?

You are a maestro, really cool, how do you maestra manage to think during such a strong pressure? I take my hat off to you.

Good afternoon I practice high notes. I'm learning, but I feel like my mouthpiece is big. Best Brass 3c... about 5 years ago I played the Shilka 15a4 and I liked it.. but the sound on it is not so beautiful.. and I sacrificed the range for the sound. Now I want to restore my range, and I wanted to ask you for the maestro, the top notes of Schilke 15a4 or take a large mouthpiece. I'm asking you because I have exactly the same setup as you. And I take the upper notes exactly according to the same principle of exhalation and hold the ambu-chur in the same way. Please tell me how can I contact you? I will be very grateful to you, forgive me for my English.

Mark, I know it's not a big deal, but you're one of the trumpet players that inspired me as a 14 year old when my brother gave me a Future Corps recording of "one more time, Chuck Corea". I didn't know at the time that the trumpet could play such things, and it was a huge inspiration. After that, my high school band played in Chicago at the Midwest Clinic, where you played with the St. Johns River City band. I was pulled aside by one of my band directors to watch a rehearsal of the band, and it further blew my mind on what was possible on the trumpet. I think it was a double B flat at the end of "Limehouse Blues". Anyways, thanks for everything

Your level is irreal!!!!! Very very good Master...

That was outrageous! If Mark and Lyn Nicholson got together they could have brought down the Berlin wall !

WOWZERS !!! You could call a dawg with that high pitched note! I didn't think it possible, to play a note on a trumpet, THAT High pitched !!! You could shatter glass with that one, & you have great range & precision & all your notes are lined up centered and are rounded and are spot on ! That's a goal to aim for ! I can still hear that high note, bouncing around between my ears, in all that muddy water.

Thank you for all your videos. They are very enlightening.

Wauuu que tecnica

Wow ..that was awesome 👍👍😎

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