Current member of the CFM, local 10-208. 

It has been said that there are two sides to a Trumpeter's personality: There is the one that lives only to lay waste to the woodwinds and strings, leaving them lying blue and lifeless along the swath of destruction that is a trumpeter's fury. Then there's the Dark Side"

 

  

Pictured above is Steve Sandner  at the piano and Jim Scheffler (me) on trumpet - Elk Grove Village, Illinois. Click Picture for Duets (Song Selection). Below and partially blocked by the mic, I am busy looking for "God knows what" in the Revolutionary Swing Orchestra's trumpet section. 

  

 
   
Musical associations include performing with The Revolutionary Swing Orchestra, vocalist  Bob Duda, The Jay Witcher Orchestra, The Ron Smolen Orchestra and The Ken Roberts Orchestra. These groups provide traditional Big Band Swing Music in the area, performing at various clubs, ballrooms, park concerts and outside events such as "Chicago's Summer Dance". 
Jim with the Jay Witcher Big Band.  

 

   I have also had the opportunity to play in the pit orchestras for many live musical productions in the Chicago area for various musical production companies and park districts.

Musicals include: Annie, Bye Bye Birdie, Chicago, City of Angles, Hello Dolly, My Fair Lady, Singing in the Rain, Wizard of OZ, Guys and Dolls, A Chorus Line, Seussical, and more recently in Wheaton Drama's The Drowsy Chaperone.

 

  

Software used on audio recordings includes Cubase and Power Tracks Pro Audio. Equipment used includes a home brew Pentium4 system, Yamaha ST5 personal studio, EMU 0404, Alesis Nanocompressor, Presonus TubePre, Creative Audigy Sound Blaster, Shure SM57 and Audio Technica 4033a microphones.  Instruments used includes Spectra and Roland keyboards, vintage horns include 1916, 1921 Conn "New Wonder" cornets, 1921 Conn 4B, 1928 King Liberty Silvertone, 1947 F. Besson Trumpets. Piano Tracks provided by Steve Sandner are on duo recordings only. 
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