2015 – Medi-Nerd 2

Throwback Thursday – 2015 Jim Ott Brass Ensemble

With the passing of Chuck Mangione at age 84 today, I’m dedicating this week’s Throwback Thursday to the time I played a Mangione chart, Legend

I took these photos 10 years ago today on my first camera, a Samsung NX2000 mirrorless. I find myself looking at NX2000’s on eBay as

I rarely argue with the results at Finals. But I will go to my grave, Abe Simpson shaking his fist at the clouds style, that

44 years ago today, the drum corps activity lost one of it’s greats. Jim Ott, an amazing brass arranger for the Stockton Commodores, Concord Blue

This week, we celebrated the birthdays of both Andrew Lloyd Webber and the late Stephen Sondheim, both of whom were born on the same day.

In 2015, I went to WGI World Class Percussion Finals for the first time. One of the greatest show moments I’ve witnessed in my marching

Six years ago, I went to my first Winter Guard International Indoor Percussion Finals. It was a spur of the moment decision to go, and

Which flex is Adam impressed by more in this video? Percussion or brass?

I haven’t watched this show in a long time. Even knowing how great Inferno was, I still got chills watching it again.