Herb Alpert
I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.
He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.
Clifford Brown was in the jazz circles considered to be probably the greatest trumpet player who ever lived.
And then we started repeating the same places... staying in same hotels. It got a little boring. I needed a change... a chance to get away from it.
Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes.
A friend, Ted Keeps - an engineer - happened to have a tape of sounds of bullring in Tijuana and overlayed it onto the tape, and we became the Tijuana Brass.