TBJ205: Remembering Floyd Cooley - Brass Legacy Project

The music world lost a giant last month when Floyd Cooley, former Principal Tuba of the San Francisco Symphony, passed away.

For the latest installment of the Brass Legacy Project I invited six former students of Floyd's to share stories of him as a player, teacher and person:

• Kevin Harrison - Axiom Brass

• Daryl Johnson - Louisville Symphony Orchestra (retired)

• Pete Link - Kyoto Symphony Orchestra

• Mike Roylance - Boston Symphony Orchestra

• William Russell - Boston Brass

• Jerome Stover - Sam Houston State University

I never had the privilege of meeting Floyd which I regret. But after being a fly on the wall for this conversation, I feel like I got to know him a little bit and that is a gift.

Thanks to all six of them for joining me on The Brass Junkies on short notice.

You can find this and every TBJ episode on YouTube, wherever you listen to podcasts or via Pedal Note Media.

Now I'm going to go listen to Floyd's Nielsen 5 recording with San Francisco and Blomstedt for about the 600th time in my life...

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Three Tuba Legends Talk About the Influence, Playing & Teaching of Arnold Jacobs

This is awesome!

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra has assembled a number of clips of three tuba legends, Rex Martin, Gene Pokorny, and Floyd Cooley, speaking about their mentor, Arnold Jacobs.

The three of them speak about a wide range of topics including:

• Teaching
• Vibrato
• Sound
• Legacy
• The CSO Brass Sound

There are a total of 19 short clips about Arnold Jacobs. These are absolutely priceless. A huge thank you to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for publishing these!

You can here them all here.