THE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF TRUMPET & BUGLE CALLS

Played by Professor Jon Yates

 

3 CD Compact Disc box set £14.00

Please note postage on this item is £1.50

 

Bugle Calls are one of the earliest forms of communication in the British armed forces. They are short and to the point and can be heard over a long distance conveying an instruction to “Fall In”, “Retreat”, or “Action” as well as mark key points in the day such as “Sunset”. This new recording of bugle calls lists all the calls used by the Royal Navy and British Army and is a complete record of a time before electronics changed communications forever. Expertly played by Professor of cornet/trumpet at the Royal Marines School of Music Jon Yates, this CD is a complete reference point for the calls, as well as a trip down memory lane for many.

There are  296 in total. This is the complete collection.

 

See also: Bugle Calls for the British Army

and Fox’s Marines

 

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Jon Yates, Professor of trumpet/cornet at the Royal Marines School of Music, Portsmouth

The sections are:

CD one

1. Routine calls for the infantry and mounted infantry in camp and quarters.

2. Field calls for mounted corps.

3. Trumpet calls for Household Cavalry, Royal Armoured Corps, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers and Royal Corps of Transport in camp and quarters.

4. Royal Air Force.

5. Selected infantry bugle calls of the American civil war.

CD two

1. Bugle calls for the Royal Navy and Royal Marines.

2. Army calls part 1 — regimental calls

3. Cavalry

4. Infantry

5. Infantry of the line

CD three

1. Army calls part 1 — regimental calls continued

2. Bonus tracks, suitable for Remembrance day
(a) Last Post — 2 minutes silence — Rouse
(b) Last Post — 2 minutes silence — Reveille
(c) Last Post — 2 minutes silence — Naval Reveille

Jonathan Yates MSM ARCM

 

Jonathan Yates was born in Shanklin, Isle of Wight in 1948. He was educated at Fairway Secondary School, Sandown and joined the Royal Marines Band Service in June 1962 as a cornet and violin player. Having gained the Education Prize and the Cornet Progress Prize during training, he gave up the violin to concentrate on the cornet and trumpet.

 

In 1966 he joined the Home Fleet Band at HMS Pembroke, Chatham. Over the following seven years he served with the Bands of HMS Victorious, HMS Hermes, HMS Daedalus, HMS Excellent and HMS Eagle, during which time he travelled to many parts of the world, including North America, the West Indies, the Indian Ocean, The Far East, Russia and Africa.

 

In 1973 he moved to the Staff Band of the Royal Marines School of Music, Deal. In 1974 he was appointed as the Band’s Principal Cornet and Trumpet player, a position he held until the closure of the School in 1996.

 

On his retirement from the Royal Marines in April 1998 Jon was appointed as Professor of Trumpet at the new Royal Marines School of Music at HMS Nelson, Portsmouth.

 

He still pursues a busy musical life playing for all kinds of musical functions, including freelancing with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and playing with the Solent Symphony Orchestra and the Kent Concert Orchestra.

 

He now lives at Lee-on-the-Solent with his wife Wendy.