Maurice Andre le grand trompettiste de notre temps Background Maurice Andre was born May 21th, 1933, into a miner's family in Ales in the Cevennes. His father was an amateur trumpet player and a great music lover. He played in the small villages and one day he came back with an old cornet. Maurice who then was 12 years old had done his solfeggio for two years. He fell in love with the ...

Roth recalls a Maurice Andre concert he attended in Chicago, in 1978.