Laurie Frink is a trumpeter and teacher you should know about. She helped many, many great trumpeters play even better. Players like Dave Douglas, Ingrid Jensen, Ambrose Akinismurie and too many more to list.

Ms. Frink also wrote the excellent method book Flexus with trumpeter John McNeil. Her approach was an extension of the great brass teacher Carmine Caruso.

Ms. Frink passed away July 13 from complications of bile duct cancer. She was 62. The loss of a great teacher is most tragic.

A Blog Supreme posted a nice tribute to Ms. Frink.

Below is a video of the Maria Schneider Orchestra playing Gumba Blue in 2000. Laurie Frink is in the trumpet section along with one of her students, Ingrid Jensen.

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And here’s the MSO in 2008, again with Laurie Frink in the trumpet section and Ingrid Jensen taking an extended solo in Pretty Road.

Want to learn more about the best ways to practice? Get an e-mail with a discount code when The Practice of Practice is published (June, 2014). To learn more about the book, check out a sample from The Practice of Practice.

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