His technical skill on the trombone gave him renown among other musicians. He was the younger brother of bandleader Jimmy Dorsey. After Dorsey broke with his brother in the mid-1930s, he led an extremely popular and highly successful band from the late 1930s into the 1950s. He is best ...
Ray Anderson (born October 16, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois) is a jazz trombone and trumpet player. Trained by the Chicago Symphony trombonists, he is regarded as someone who pushes the limits of the instrument. He is a colleague of trombonist George Lewis. Anderson also plays sousaphone and ...
Radu Malfatti is an Austrian trombone and bass harmonica player,and composer. He was born in Innsbruck, in the province of Tyrol, on December 16, 1943. Malfatti is associated with the style of music known as reductionism and has been described as "among the leaders in redefining the avant-...
In his later years Warren performed often at the West End jazz club at 116th and Broadway in New York City, leading a band called The Countsmen, which featured former Basie band member Dicky Wells on trombone and Peck Morrison on double bass. He lived part of the time in Switzerland, ...
Along with his brother Tommy, who played trombone, Jimmy Dorsey formed Dorsey’s Novelty Six, one of the first swing bands to bebroadcast on the radio. The pair continued to work together over the next 15 years until a brotherly dispute split them apart in 1935. He continued to run his ...
Not only was this the first jazz concert to be held at Carnegie Hall, but also featured a jam session playing ‘Honeysuckle Rose’ featuring a mixed group of white and black musicians (unusual at the time) from the the bands of Benny Goodman, Count Basie and Duke Ellington. ...
On the Portland roster were outstanding reed players Russell Procope, Jimmy Hamilton, Paul Gonsalves and Harry Carney. The brass section featured trumpeters Clark Terry, Ray Nance and high-note specialist Cat Anderson with trombone players Juan Tizol,Quentin JacksonandBritt Woodman — seen in this ...
our narrator comes clean with the sobering lyric, "I don't have a husband, he don't play the trombone" before pleading, "I need to borrow money to pay this lawyer and Charlie hey, I'll be eligible for parole come Valentine's Day." For the uninitiated, this is the off-beat g...
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