Rafael Mendez, Trumpet: "Carnival IN Venice" - Great Mendez Virtuoso Passages in This Vocal Track!

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What you hear Rafael play is very much what you would expect in Carnival OF Venice, on which tune this is based. The intro and ending are handled in harmony by the trumpet section (the full video is already on my channel), so in THIS video I trimmed it to just Mendez's section. AND I included the sheet music so you can see what he's doing.
Most brass players are familiar with the solo recordings of Raphael Mendez, but his orchestra did many recordings with popular vocalist. Often, Mendez would be featured either in counter melodic phrases or during introductions and interludes. Recordings like this remind me that there is still no one who can play like him!