The longest track, 5, features the "splash" rhythms mentioned above, along with Raga-style percussion, gongs, the sounds of giggling children, and an over-riding lead trumpet.

Over the years, the Oregon Jazz Band has typically included eight musicians with Borcher as the original lead trumpet.

The demands of the score for Porgy and Bess were legendary, including the very first note for the lead trumpet.

Charlie leaves a great musical legacy, and will be remembered as a respected band/studio musician, and a master in the art of lead trumpet.

Immediately following that tour, at seventeen, he spent a year touring with the Connie Stevens show, playing lead trumpet for the first time with a popular music act.

Sean Jones (former lead trumpet in the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra)

In October 1935, Eldridge joined Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra, playing lead trumpet and occasionally singing.

The amount includes extra pay for instrument maintenance, being the lead trumpet, and his role as "in-house contractor," an administrative position within the orchestra.

There were also three trumpets where the first trumpet is the lead trumpet.

Being from a musically inclined family, he took up the trumpet, eventually becoming the lead trumpet of the Okanogan High School band.