Saturday, March 23, 2013

Matt Knowles - Last of my talented kids

Sometimes you just have to brag!

My father was a music teacher and  the arts have always been in our family. Matt (17) has been a music fanatic - anything but classical (where did I go wrong....). In high school he found a renewed love of  jazz. In the school jazz band he has played guitar (electric, bass, acoustic), baritone sax, cornet and trombone. In other groups he added baritone horn and percussion.
The sweet thing about this video is that he picked up the trombone just a couple of months prior - learned the stops from a friend in the band - then surprised us, and a lot of other with this: