Claude Gordon Students
Student Names Instrument Herb Alpert (unknown number of lessons, definitely one) trumpet Dave Banks trumpet Abel Barajas trumpet Dave Bendigkeit trumpet Bob Berrenson trumpet Tom Bertetta trumpet Walter Beveridge trumpet Bill Bing trumpet Eric Bolvin trumpet Jerry Bowers trumpet Vance Bowman trumpet Dean Boysen trumpet Pete Bresciani trumpet Tom Brozene trumpet Brunson Brothers (took only one lesson to play for Claude) trumpet Bill Bryant trumpet Jeff Bunnell trumpet Paul Cacia trumpet Billie Catalono trumpet Jack Caudill trumpet Dave Cockrell trumpet Glenn Colangelo trumpet Lonnie Cory trumpet Bob Coyner trumpet Salvator W. Cracchiolo trumpet Jay Daversa trumpet Joe Desimone trumpet Jim Dye trumpet Don Eisaman trumpet Don Ellis (unknown number of lessons) trumpet David Evans trumpet Dennis Farias trumpet Robert Fienga trombone Jon Forrest trumpet Robert Gale trumpet Darrel W. Gardner ? trumpet Vince Gassi trumpet Mark Godfrey trumpet Chandler Goetting (1st trumpet Munich Symphony) trumpet Lou Gonzales trumpet Irv Goodman (Benny’s brother) trumpet James Boyd Grafmyer trumpet Tom Graper trumpet Matt Graves trumpet Marc Gumberg trumpet Bruce Haag trumpet John Hablieb trumpet Bill Hall trumpet David Harrison trumpet Howard Heid trumpet Rhys Henson trumpet Stanley Anthony Hernacki trumpet Bill Hicks trumpet Richard G. Hofmann trumpet Tom Holden trumpet Tony Horowitz trumpet Jim Howsman trumpet Bill Hunsicker trumpet Marshall J. Hunt trumpet Doug Johnson trumpet Jack Kanstul trumpet Harry Kim trumpet Ron King trumpet Brad Kintscher French Horn Kacey Rogers Kintscher French Horn Carole Klein trumpet William B. Knevitt trumpet Bob Krause trumpet Ernie Langone trumpet Rieu Laurent trumpet Kathy Layton trumpet Carl Leach, Jr. trumpet Carl Lenthe trombone Jeff Lewis trumpet Chris Lopez trumpet Bonnie Luedeka (Hunsicker) trumpet Mark Manda trumpet Greg Marciel trumpet Stan Mark trumpet Bruce A. Martineau trumpet Matt Mascovich trumpet Real Mathieu trumpet Rich Matta trumpet Daniel Joseph Matus trumpet Marvin McFadden trumpet Dan McGurn trumpet Mike McPheeters trumpet Ron Meza trumpet Ron Michaels trumpet Jean-Pierre Michelou trumpet Kent Mikasa trumpet Larry Miller, M.D. trumpet Darren Miner trumpet Ron Modell (took a few lessons) trumpet John Mohan trumpet Catherine Murtaugh trumpet Byron Myhre trumpet Lynn Nicholson trumpet John Noxon trombone Bob O’Donnell trumpet Andy Omdahl trumpet Brian Padilla trumpet Jon Papenbrook trumpet Bernie Parsons trumpet Jim Paulson trombone Mike Paulson trumpet Mike Phillippe trumpet David Powell trumpet Jeff Purtle trumpet Mike Rice trumpet Ronald Ricketts trombone Earl A. Rogers trumpet David B. Roberts trombone John Rosenberg trumpet Mike Rotman trumpet Bob Runnels trumpet Solomon Russo trumpet Bob Sakoi trumpet Anatoly Selianin (Saratov University) trumpet Fred Sautter trumpet Andy Scott trumpet Vincent E. Shank trumpet Ed Sheftel trumpet Guy Shobe trumpet Larry Skinner trumpet Susan Slaughter trumpet Curt Sletten trumpet George Souza trumpet, guitar Larry Souza trumpet Doug Stanley trumpet Lowell Stevenson trumpet Vern Strasner trumpet Howard Struble trumpet Masashi Sugiyama trumpet Tim Sullivan trumpet Chazz Sutton trumpet Ernie Tack trombone Jim Thacker trumpet Barry Trop trumpet Steven Trop trombone Nancy Tucker trumpet Mark Van Cleave trumpet Bob Valle trumpet Duane Vallejos trumpet Ron Vermillion trumpet Roger Wagner (AKA Jesus "Jerry" Quezada) trumpet Robert Waldron trumpet Steve Watkins trumpet Roy Wiegand trombone Paul Whit trumpet Hal Willenborg trumpet Don Williams trumpet Ron Williams trombone Gene Wing trumpet Craig Woods trombone Bradley “Scott” Wright trumpet Tracy (from Utah, married to pianist) trumpet Roger (from Sacramento) trumpet Principal trombone in St. Louis Symphony ? trombone Bill ? (United Airlines pilot from the San Francisco area)
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