The great teacher and trumpet player, Claude Gordon
Claude Gordon (1916 - 1996), Band Leader, Trumpet Virtuoso and Educator, was bom in Helena, Montana, U.S.A  in April 5, 1916, into a musical family.
Claude was a student of the famous Herbert L. Clarke. He moved to Los Angeles, California to study with Clarke for 11 years until Clarke's death in 1945.
It was his relationship with Clarke that set him on his road to success with the advice, "Don't stop where I stopped, go further."

As an Educator, Claude has published several CLAUDE GORDON METHOD BOOKS
(Carl Fischer Publications)

• Brass Playing Is No Harder than Deep Breathing
• Daily Trumpet Routines
• Physical Approach to Elementary Brass Playing for Trumpet
• Systematic Approach to Daily Practice  for Trumpet
• Thirty Velocity Studies for trumpet
• Tongue Level Exercises for trumpet

More about Claude Gordon

• Claude's lessons (from his student, Eric Bolvin)
• The Teaching Philosophy of Claude Gordon (by his student, Matt Graves)
• Herbert L. Clarke's letter to Claude Gordon (from one of his students, Lowell W. Stevenson)
• Student of Claude Gordon (from one of his students, Tom Holden)
• Working with Claude (from Randall L. Dalton)
• Claude Gordon's Approach to Brass Playing (from one of his students, Matt Graves)
• Discussion on TPIN about Claude Gordon
• TPIN: Great Teachers (from Jack Kanstul)
• TPIN: Great Teachers (from Matt Graves)
• 'gadgets' and 'remedies' (from one of his students, Solomon Russo)
• a student of Claude Gordon (from John Mohan)

• The Official Home Page og Claude Gordon Music Enterprise
• Matt's Music Site (Matt Graves Website + contibutions by other Gordon students)
• Fundamental Flexibility Studies (By Matt Graves)
• purtle.com (By Jeffery A. Purtle, student of Gordon; articles about brass playing)