Well it’s been some months since I last completed a blog entry for the website and it has been quite a busy time one way and another. Possibly the biggest change in terms of my trombone playing is my decision to leave Douglas Town Band after over eleven years. The fact that we had a month off during the summer gave me the opportunity to think this over. Some of you reading this will be all too aware of the politics that all too often go hand in hand with playing in a brass band. Well I d...