I'm Adam Manus, and I'm Peter Martin, and you're listening to the You'll Hear at podcast.

Today we're going to shine the instrument spotlight on the trumpet.

Now, this is the third attempt we've had at starting this episode.

So I'm not sure if we know what we're doing here with this trumpet spotlight.

Well, a little disclaimer. It's the third time. Okay, the first time we were thrown so much shade, we felt bad. It was too negative. We went negative too fast. The second, we went a little too positive. We went too positive. We got to hit a middle ground on this one. I think that's why I called this out because I think we're going to hit just the right note. That's right. I feel good about it.

Unlike most trumpet, no.

I'm just kidding. I already went there.

Already went there.

No, the Trump... I called this out because I think we're going to hit just the right note. That's right. I feel good about it. Unlike most trumpet. I'm just kidding. I already went there.

I already went there. No, the trumpet is, you know, such an iconic instrument of the music just physically, you know, how it looks. A trumpet player in front of the band, of course, where they always want to be. But it's fun, you know, we're both from St. Louis or both grew up in St. Louis

and live here now, and this is a great trumpet town. Actually, most of my life I've spent

St. Louis, New York, and New Orleans. And, you know, certainly New Orleans, St. Louis, big trumpet

towns. Yeah, we, you know, Miles Davis, Clark Terry, and then folks like Russell Gunn later, I mean, just amazing.

Keon Harold.

Keon Harold.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We have this tradition.

And the trumpet is, I mean, it deserves the spotlight.

It is an amazingly expressive instrument, you know, with the help of Lewis Armstrong, helped make jazz what it is and became this iconic sound of what. And King Oliver before that, I mean, that was like a real bridge to the music. And I think, you know, we, I mean, it's just, it's a very difficult instrument to play. I mean, when you hear a great player, this is true for any instrument, but it's, I think, a little bit more so for the trumpet when you hear it played well

it still seems hard because you know the mouth the physicality of it yeah um is definitely there and I

think you know combined well you know the piano or the guitar anyone can sit down and just play a note

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