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I know the sax guy is Justo Almer... and the bassist is Abraham Labriolo. Both are considered the top shelf in their individual craft. I don't know the trumpet player however. That is how it goes on a lot of Ron's bands; best musicians... annonymous names.


Yes, these are two heavy hitters. Justo Almario was at Berklee with my brother in the mid-1960s. The bassist is Abraham Laboriel. With the right spelling, you can look them up.

I listened to a 30-second excerpt of this tune on Amazon, and then a YouTube video. Nice music. Either of these would give your trumpeter a very good idea of articulation.

It did sound and look like Justo Almario playing the alto sax solo, assuming this was recorded in the 1970s.

There are at least five horns shown. The lead trumpet plays high Ds consistently, and then they modulate up a step and it's several high Es . This part would definitely push even a pro player, especially if it were only three horns where the high trumpet would stand out more (in church, no less). For example, that's about as high as I ever play when playing lead in a theater show score.

It gets worse.

On the video, the lead trumpet hits a bunch of Gs over high C, and then As when they modulate. That's something I would not even attempt. There's only a few dozen people in the world who could have played that part as well as he did on the video, so I agree with you, this is another ringer. At least these notes are doubled by the other trumpet down an octave, which is probably where the part is written.

I repeat, if you can pull this off, you are in one hip church. Best of luck.

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