Painting Jazz - The Martin Committee Trumpet

Jazz, Period. - Painting Jazz - The Martin Committee Trumpet Kevin Dean - 1944 Martin Committee Model Trumpet Video and Sound by Randy Cole In this installment of Jazz, Period., Montreal trumpet legend Kevin Dean shares his thoughts and feelings about the Martin Committee Model trumpet, and the themes and ideas of the Modernist movement that inspired its design. Simplicity, elegance, and self consciousness reverberate in Dean’s impromptu solo, and he discusses how these themes are foundational to Modern Jazz, and to the celebrated trumpet that still captures the imagination of players. For the session, Dean was paired with a rare Handcraft Committee, dating to 1944. The instrument had not been played in more than half a century, and we see Dean carefully examine this historic instrument, and put it to the test. The Martin Committee represents the perfect overlap of fine industrial age craftsmanship, and effective modernist design, both in terms of aesthetics and physics.