Roy Stevens
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Roy Stevens, co-creator of the Stevens-Costello Triple C Embouchure Technique (with second author being William N. Costello), had considered himself the Embouchure Clinician at Columbia University's Associate Instructor Teacher's College. His book, rendered out of print since his death, has been regarded as one of the most influential Trumpet method books of the 20th Century, for it explains in-depth the physical and mental laws and aspects of trumpet playing.
The amazing embouchure system that Roy taught has been recently handed down to Roy's protoge Roy Roman. You can access the Stevens-Costello method from Roy Roman's website www.royroman.com.
From 'Final Bar' in Downbeat Magazine, March 1989: Roy Stevens, trumpeter with the Dorsey Brothers, Bunny Berigan, Benny Goodman, and on Coleman Hawkins' recording "Body and Soul", died of heart failure October 24 in Riverdale, NY, at age 71. A teacher of embouchure technique, his students included Don Ellis, Maynard Ferguson, and Lou Soloff.
