Albert Manglesdorff discusses musical ambition.

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Albert Manglesdorff discusses his original trombone technique.

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Albert Manglesdorff discusses the differences of playing solo versus with a group.

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Q: “Now, I want to talk to you about your trombone playing because until ten years ago when I first heard you, you were a striking, capable trombone player who was very inventive, very creative but in the last decade you seem to have made quite a leap forward in your playing – and that would be the decade when most people would be quite content to rest on what they have started before. And yet – I would assume you’re forty-five-ish or so? – at that age, you are changing what you’re doing in the music, which is not a common thing. Most people really rest on their laurels at that point – you’re not doing that…”

A: “Well, I find there was no reason to rest. I still want to go a few years and ... well, the music changed. And I've added singing to my playing, which you might have heard. I mean, the multi-phonic effect, the playing of chords, this is adding the voice to the blowing of the horn, and I started doing this just about eight years ago, seven, eight years ago. And there is still a lot to be found in that way of playing and I actually think of continuing for another ten or twenty years.”