The Music Mind Podcast featuring Louis Dowdeswell - Episode 32

This episode of The Music Mind Podcast features Louis Dowdeswell, a London based highly respected professional trumpet player. Louis has played trumpet for a living his entire life. He has built a reputation as one of the world's top lead trumpet players having worked with Gordon Goodwin's LA based Big Phat Band, with Hollywood studio legend lead trumpet player Wayne Bergeron, and with the London Symphony Orchestra along with many major artists and bands. With over 100,000 subscribers and 22 million views to his YouTube Channel it is fair to say that Louis is also somewhat of an internet sensation in the trumpet world. The conversation covers a wide range of topics including what it's like playing one of the most difficult of all instrument, making a living in the music business, the importance of music education, establishing the Trumpet Academy, and how to live a successful creative life doing what you love to do. It also delves into the importance of finding the 'why' we do the things we do. For the music collaboration on this episode, Louis chose the famous Disney jazz standard Someday My Prince Will Come. The duet features Louis on jazz trumpet with Brian Hayes on bass clarinet. You can reach out and connect with Louis at For further information on The Music Mind Podcast or to connect with Brian Hayes go to To listen to AUDIO ONLY versions of The Music Mind Podcast series refer To view the full suite of The Music Mind video podcasts refer

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The Music Mind Podcast featuring Louis Dowdeswell - Episode 32 is an episode from The Music Mind Podcast by Brian Hayes.

This episode is 99:31 long.

This episode was published on Jul 3, 2025.

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