Trumpet Artist Allen Vizzutti
b'Equally at home in a multitude of musical idioms, Allen Vizzutti has visited 35 countries and every state in the union to perform with a rainbow of artists and ensembles, including Chick Corea, Doc Severinsen, Dave Brubeck, The NBC Tonight Show Band, the Airmen of Note, the Army Blues, Woody Herman and Dizzy Gillespie.\\n \\nPerforming as a classical and a jazz artist, often in the same evening, Vizzutti has appeared as a guest soloist with symphony orchestras in Germany, Japan, Canada, and the United States, and his performances have been broadcast on national television around the world. He has performed as a soloist at the Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, Newport Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, the Charles Ives Center and the Lincoln Center.\\n\\nVizzutti\'s extensive treatise, The Allen Vizzutti Trumpet Method, and his New Concepts for Trumpet have become standard works for trumpet study worldwide. In the early 1980\'s, he wrote, performed, and produced an educational video, "Steps to Excellence," for the Yamaha Corporation of America. Let\'s flash back to DX7 synthesizers, skinny ties and jazz fusion to catch footage from the original "Steps to Excellence" as well as a recent interview with Allen about the classic video, his recollections and his current projects.'