Jack Bullock

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Jack Bullock is acknowledged for his innovations in brass instruction and arranging. In the 1950s, he created jazz-styled horn arrangements for the Appleknockers and made performing a year-round activity, scheduling sit-down stage concerts during the winter months. During this time, the Appleknockers attracted more members for the winter schedule of performances than for summer shows. He worked with Whaley, Royce and Company (manufacturers of intruments based in Toronto, Canada) on introducing the first contra-bass bugle, more than 9 years before the over-the-shoulder model became common. The Whaley Royce design produced the proper sound, but the horn was the conventional bell-front bugle shape. The weight of the instrument made it too cumbersome to march with, and it was used only briefly by the Appleknockers. Bullock had a career as a member of the Geneva Appleknockers senior drum and bugle corps joining up as a bugler in the spring of 1948. In 1951, he was drafted into the United States Army. He rejoined the Appleknockers, as a bugler, arranger and instructor intermittently through the 1960s. When the Appleknockers folded, he became arranger and instructor for a number of corps in western New York, including the Geneva Junior Appleknockers, Auburn Purple Lancers and Rochester Crusaders. He was an arranger and instrumental clinician for Warner Brothers Music, in Miami, Florida for many years after his drum corps career. Jack Bullock was inducted into the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame in 1981.

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• BIOGRAPHIES - World Drum Corps Hall of Fame web site