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We bid farewell to our co-founder and trumpet hero, Gary Slechta! Gary will be leaving the Texas Horns to pursue a new career in publishing and working with his own compositions and arrangements. Gary has contributed to the Texas Horns in many ways over the years and his terrific musicianship and road comraderie will be sorely missed!

Replacing Gary on trumpet with the horns will be Al Gomez. Al is a veteran of the Texas Blues, R+B and Jazz scene, and nationally known for his performances with Doug Sahm, The Texas Tornados, Los Jazz Vatos, Randy Garibay, Johnny Nicholas, and many other great artists. We will have more info here soon about Al, including pictures and bio! Glad to have Al!!!

Kaz and John will head North to Dallas on Friday, August 26th to accompany Anson Funderburgh, Delbert McClinton and many others in a Granada Theater concert benefitting Sam Myers. Sam has been a stellar blues vocalist and harmonica player with Anson for many years, and is now recovering from surgery. For more info about the concert please visit Anson's website:

OTHER RECENT NEWS: Kaz was once again nominated in the 'horns' category of the 2005 Handy Awards!!!

Kaz has been busy this year as a producer, and the newest CD is Candye Kane's "White Trash Girl" on Ruf Records. She is a terrific singer and a pleasure to work with in the studio. The Texas Horns are featured on several tracks. CHECK IT OUT!

The Texas Horns have completed performances at the Waterfront Festival in Portland OR, appearing with Mavis Staples, Sherman Robertson, Stephen Bruton, Curtis Salgado, and many others! They will also continue appearances at the Cisco Systems Blues Festival in Ottawa in July, performing with Michael Franti and Spearhead, Buckwheat Zydeco, WC Clark, Xavier Rudd, and many other great acts. Please come and check us out, and let us know if you are coming!

Kaz has also been busy in the studio with excellent Austin jazz musicians, producing a large jazz ensemble with saxophonist Alex Coke, entitled "Iraqnophobia" on Voxlox. This also features John Mills of the Texas Horns on sax and clarinet. Kaz has also finished producing a wonderful CD with the Austin group Atash. This will be released soon.

Also some great new work from Texas Horns member John Mills. John did some wonderful horn arrangements on Ray Benson's new CD.

That's all for now, and thanks for visiting! Drop us a line!