Beautiful. Probably an earlier recording. Not as polished, clean and as dynamically dramatic as it would become in his later performances (notably the Japan concert).
I just got this piece from my teacher at the start of the summer . I just tried it for the first time. It's also summer so I can't ask my teacher about things. Also I'm in grade 6 and I just started learning double tongue.
First of all: His tone is so good because he is playing on cornet. Second of all: This is random but I recently took a private lesson with Phil Smith and I was able to get an autograph.