Exploring the Mutantrumpet of Ben Neill
A Message from Echoes leads to the Exploration of Horizontal from Ben Neill On Friday of last week, I received the email outlining what was coming up on Echoes during the week of January 18th. On Wednesday the 20th, the title of the show is Tripped Out Trumpets. Here’s the description of the show….. It’s the sound of tripped out trumpets. Horn players are going beyond the sound of Be-bop solos and classical concertos. We’ll hear from leading innovators expanding the range of the trumpet including Ben Neill, Nils Peter Molvaer, Jeff Oster and more. Join John Diliberto with Tripped Out Trumpets on Echoes. Of the three trumpeters mentioned, I have listened to the music of Jeff Oster. His latest album is titled Next is a really fine album it was at the top of the Zone Music Reporter Top 100 Radio Airplay Chart back in the fall! The other two artists were unfamiliar to me. I decided that I would start with the first name, Ben Neill. At Spotify I saw that his latest release is Horizontal. The album became the soundtrack for my trip back from Paulsboro on Friday, and since then I have listened to the wonderful album a few more times.This morning I went to Ben Neill’s website to explore the man and his music a little further. From his biography….. BEN NEILL is a composer, performer, producer, and inventor of the mutantrumpet, a hybrid electro-acoustic instrument. He has been called “a creative composer and…
