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John Tatum
Awards
First place all solos in interscholastic league every year for three years with the Longview High School Band...
Gear
Yamaha flugelhorn...hoping to get a Conn bebop trumpet soon...
Tags
Take Five With John Tatum
by AAJ Staff
Meet John Tatum: Went though tutoring at North Texas State University, with Vaughn Roberts, and had a few lessons with JQ Whitcomb of Shanghai. I'm mostly self-taught and using the goal note theory of Shelly Berg. It works!Instruments Trumpet, flueglehorn, guitar, drums.Teachers and/or influences? Vaughn and JQ. I love Chris Botti's sweet tone and overall control. Arturo Sandoval, Miles Davis,Clifford Brown and Tom Browne of Jamaican funk fame. Main inspiration: Feels so Good," by Chuck Mangione.
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Flugelhorn
Willing to teach
Advanced only
Credentials/Background
John Tatum took private horn lessons at North Texas State with Vaughn Roberts, Doctorate in Music and(first chair in the one-o'clock jazz band)...He graduated in 76 from Stephen F. Austin State Univ. and did graduate studies at Univ. of Texas of Tyler. He began ear training in Nassau, Bahamas while living directly above professional jazz guitarist from Jamaica, Howard Brown. I have woodshedded for the past six years in China...thus the progress...using the goal note theory of Shelton Berg. He is available some weekends...at reasonable rates.