A musician has to be versatile these days!
Here is a TV commercial with Bert Brandsma playing sousaphone.
The story behind this is even greater
Bert was asked to play the trumpet, so he arrived with a beautifull shiny borrowed trumpet on the TV set. When it was time to do his part they suddenly said : No, no, not that little trumpet, that big one over there!
It turned out to be a sousaphone!
Then, afterwards , the organiser said , well, well….. what do you think….
you are asked to play trumpet, and they show up with a trombone!…….
It was a great experience. Any filmmaker in the need of a player of the saxophone / clarinet / trumpet / trombone / sousaphone / drums / conductor / arranger or a full band, please contact me at :
http://www.dixielandcrackerjacks.com
Well, here you can see the results.
The commercial was shown in the break of the X factor on RTL4, Dutch television.
Bert Brandsma studied classical saxophone and jazz saxophone at the conservatory of Groningen.
Now he is bandleader of the Dixieland Crackerjacks and played 8 years in a row lead alto saxophone, doubling solo clarinet in the Cologne Opera House, in the most popular production. Attracting 1500 people per show, 28 shows a year.
Maria Bravo
Iluminada van Wiederen
Geraldine Hague
Plays, plays…… she owns a trumpet! haha
@ABrandsma Selena plays the trumpet?
I borrowed Selena's trumpet. The sousaphone was on the filmset.
The commercial is about a supermarket that promisses to have the lowest prices and the best service and so on.
Who did you borrow the trumpet from?
BTW: What is this commercial all about?
For this kind of jobs, I play any instrument ever invented!
My sousaphone teacher just called me asking why I don't take lessons anymore……
I said : No time….. too many gigs!!!
Hey Bert, for a bass sax player, you do a mean sousaphone!
Great job, Bert. Maybe you should add the trumpbonaphone to your list of instruments ?