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I've been wanting to listen to some good trombone music... any genre's fine.

recomend, albums, bands, musicians, whatever. A small description would help out too...

Thanks.

― andy garcia, Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

bump to the answers...

― , Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

surely this is where ska came in .. the best use of trombone .

don drummond - was key figure in the skatalites ..

cant go wrong with them really.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

The first four JBs albums are pretty fucking great -- plenty of Fred Wesley trombone on those. Deep, funky, mostly instrumental, with some chants and hollering and whatnot.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

Anything by Jack Teagarden, especially his '50s recordings. Great New Orleans style jazz, even though he was a Texan.

― PopSarah (PopSarah), Thursday, 14 April 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

New Birth Brass Band, fuckin' D-Boy, OMG IT'S SOME SICK TROMBONE SHIT!

Also, my band Mama Digdown's Brass Band's last record had a three bone lineup (although we've played gigs with up to FIVE!) and some pretty hot shit.

God bless the trombone, at least when used in the right way (i.e., as a CANNON).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

Also, trombone shout choirs.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Capt. Beefheart & the Magic Band - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)

There's some tasty 'bone on this record, don't miss the breezy island flavor of "Tropical Hot Dog Night".

Evan Parker & George Lewis - From Saxophone and Trombone

There's a lot of George Lewis records I could put here, but this is a good place to start. He does things you didn't know a trombone could do. Kind of ambient, churning and droney.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

yeah i was gonna say "TROPICAL HOT DOG NIGHT" like two FLAMINGOS IN A FRUIT FIGHT

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

The Specials & Special AKA

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 14 April 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

New York Art Quartet's debut record. Roswell Rudd blows the doors off.

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 15 April 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

I think Latin music is a good place for trombone. But the only name I can give you off the top of my head is a guy who's played with Cachao and Ruben Blades- Jimmy Bosch.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 15 April 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

Paul Rutherford The Gentle Harm Of The Bourgeoisie
George Lewis Homage To Charles Parker
Gail Brand & Morgan Guberman Ballgames And Crazy
Arthur Russell Calling Out Of Context
Dexy's Midnight Runners Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Radu Malfatti & Stephan Wittwer ...Und?Roswell Rudd Flexible Flyer
Christian Lindberg Works For Trombone And Orchestra
Archie Shepp Three For A Quarter, One For A Dime
Grachan Moncur III New Africa

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

Wendy Mae Chambers A Mass for Mass Trombones (for 77 trombones)

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.perryband.org/giftsideas/c8.jpg

― charleston charge (chaki), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

also check out Steve Turre, excellent jazz trombonist who also got into playing conch shells

― H (Heruy), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

For example, on Avant Pop by Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:29 (twenty years ago)

Robert Erickson's General Speech is wonderful and strange. It consists of a speech delivered through the mouthpiece of the trombone, which is played simultaneously.

Stuart Dempster's classic performance of the piece is streamed here:
http://artofthestates.org/cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=11

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 15 April 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

Ben of the Hungry March Band

― autovac (autovac), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

(reads Paul's post, slaps forehead for having forgotten)

Stuart Dempster - Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel

five star ambient record, ten trombones recorded in two million-gallon underground water reservoir with 45 seconds of natural reverb.

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

phil ranelin, roswell rudd

― magicmarcos, Friday, 15 April 2005 06:21 (twenty years ago)

"George Fell Into His French Horn" by the, er, Beach Boys, in which nine-piece brass section (incl. three trombones) converse through mouthpieces and play at same time.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:25 (twenty years ago)

@milton
Yeah, that Dempster record must be great. I have a similar one but it's a collaboration between Dempster and Pauline Oliveros (and somebody else I think), recorded in the same space. It's kind of cool to think you could sing a note, go outside to send a quick text message, go back in, and still hear the resonance of the note you sang.

I'm going off topic, so to get back on: Richard Barrett's EARTH for trombone and percussion is mind-bogglingly good. But the only recording (featuring the Australian group ELISION) is out of print I imagine.

Really Marcello? Will check this out.

(But now I'm going to sleep...)

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:27 (twenty years ago)

the first two Deep Listening Band albums were recorded there ('Deep Listening' and 'Ready Made Boomerang'). Dempster & Oliveros are the main two constant members & they've all got trombone so their records could go on this list (especially 'Non-Stop Flight').

the Dempster record is my favorite though.

Julio burned me a copy of that Barrett record, it is good. Squervy humor and elastics.

― milton parker (Jon L), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

Oblak Semen by Vinko Globakar is also great. He starts off blowing through the mouthpiece alone then gradually reassembles the instrument while ranting, tap dancing and having a crack at the drums at the same time. Kind of like Han Bennink Plays Berio.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

Anyone know any slow, mournful trombone music? It's such a droney-sounding instrument.

― Seuss, Friday, 15 April 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

Jimmy Knepper's solo on "Where Flamingos Fly" by Gil Evans off the Out Of The Cool album. Also "Rothko" by Lunge off their Stronge Language album.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

A Latin trombonist besides annoying Jimmy Bosch--hmmm, I'm stumped. (Will return later.)

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:57 (twenty years ago)

annoying Jimmy Bosch

whose last CD I'm probably going to pick up really soon, but his solos, all over the place, have been bugging me for some reason.

Anyway: Willie Colon. Titles tomorrow, since I'm not officially awake now.

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Friday, 15 April 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

Actually early Eddie Palmieri with his band La Perfecta was pretty ground-breaking for using trombone in salsa and doing it in interesting ways.

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Friday, 15 April 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

haven't heard his albums but I really enjoyed Jimmy Bosch live

― H (Heruy), Friday, 15 April 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

some nina rota scores

― anthony, Friday, 15 April 2005 07:10 (twenty years ago)

Trombone Dixie, The Beach Boys.

I once heard some nice guitar/trombone jazz, but I don't know who it was.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 15 April 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

pj was it Radu Malfatti & Stephan Wittwer '...Und?' and if so can I have a copy k thx bye!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 15 April 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

I also like berio's sequenza for it as played by vinko glokobar.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 15 April 2005 07:52 (twenty years ago)

The Acrobat (theme tune from Jonny Briggs!)

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 15 April 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

Check out the live show available for download on Rebirth Brass Band's website (http://www.rebirthbrassband.com) - there's one track with the two Rebirth bones, Steve Turre, and Fred Wesley sitting in.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

I never knew Willie Colón actually played an instrument, I just thought he was a bandleader! I suppose I could have read the liner notes but I only have a few CDs and the print is so small.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

Let's not forget Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/bourbonstreet/2418/jjquintets.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

doesn't look a bit like jj johnson!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

dangers of drugs

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

That's okay, I was just being territorial about Latin music, I think. I've never seen Bosch live, though I've come close a couple times, as I recall (the kind of cases where you miss someone because the person you were supposed to me was an hour late or because you got sick at the last minute). But I have a feeling I made a mistake by not buying the CD he put out last year.

Eddie Palmieri: Lo Que Traigo es Sabroso
Willie Colon:
w/ Mon Rivera: There Goes the Neighborhood
w/ Ruben Blades: Siembra
w/ Hector Lavoe: El Juicio (&/or buy a Lavoe compilation or two or three)

I like the trombone on Sun Ra's Other Planes of There and probably other Sun Ra recordings I'm not remembering.

Also, I third the Stuart Dempster suggestion, from what I remember of him.

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

http://www.tromboneshorty.com/images/LRHR1156TroyAndrewsTrombone.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

(Also, there's a very fine remake of the song "Lo Que Traigo es Sabroso" on Palmieri's Ritmo Caliente from a couple years back--not as good as the original, but with vastly better sound quality.)

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Friday, 15 April 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

In addition to the many fine suggestions above:

Miles Davis "Walkin'" (J.J. Johnson)
Charles Mingus "Haitan Fight Song" (Jimmy Knepper)
George Russell "Kentucky Oysters" (David Baker)
Archie Shepp "Wherever Junebugs Go" (Roswell Rudd)
Duke Ellington's great trombone section with Joe Nanton and Lawrence Brown

Question for Mr. Carlin: Does the Lindberg record have the (and I'm going to
misspell this) "Morceau Symponique" on it? I love that piece.

― Not Thaat Chuck, Friday, 15 April 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Phil Niblock Third Trombone
Deep trombonedrone.

― Trip Maker (Sean Witzman), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

track down Grachan Moncur III's Evolution and Other Stuff.
also peep Eureka Brass Band's "Trombonium."

― imbidimts, Friday, 15 April 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Fine trombone playing on a record I think is somewhat neglected: Jerry Granelli's '92 "A Song I Thought I Heard Buddy Sing." Julian Priester is the trombonist. With Frisell, Robben Ford, Kenny Garrett, Anthony Cox, Granelli on drums. One of the best jazz records of the '90s.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 15 April 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

Any Grachan Moncur III is worth hearing. Sorta in/out jazz at its finest, he's a great writer and a liquid & flexible soloist, too. The other great jazz trombonist is Kai Winding. This album is grebt:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003N9S.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

OH SHIT:

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Robin Eubanks. His dueling solos with Chris Potter on the Dave Holland Quintet's Prime Directive are amazing, and they're even better on the live disc. He also does some stuff with distortion and effects pedals on his solo records, if you're into that sort of thing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

Wycliffe Gordon makes some good records too.

http://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/imgsm/1238.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

evidently, Shostakovich is generally pretty good to his trombones. Brahms isn't.

― lemin (lemin), Friday, 15 April 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

Lotsa superb players up there.

Kid Ory -- set the stndards in early New Orleans.

Charlie Green -- at times, he was to Bessie Smith as Lester Young was to Billie Holiday.

J.C. Higgenbotham -- with Henry "Red" Allen and His New York Orchestra

Tricky Sam Nanton and Juan Tizol -- Duke's men.

Al Grey -- overlooked in the '50s.

Albert Mangelsdorff -- European connection.

Fred Wesley and Bruce Fowler -- Funky stuff.

Bob Brookmeyer -- Valve man who nevertheless slides among styles and eras with ease.

― Dock Miles (Dock Miles), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

The first Isotope 217 has some pretty tasty trombone playing on it -- Sara P. Smith, I think.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

Wolter Wierbos - solo, with the ICP, with the Ex ... everything

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

Question for Mr. Carlin: Does the Lindberg record have the (and I'm going to misspell this) "Morceau Symponique" on it? I love that piece.

Nope, you can find that particular performance on Lindberg's Romantic Trombone Concertos CD, which is also well worth having.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

annie whitehead!

― max, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 07:25 (twenty years ago)

"...you can find that particular performance on Lindberg's Romantic Trombone Concertos CD..."

Thanks a lot. I'll pick them both up.

― Not Thaat Chuck, Tuesday, 19 April 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

Best use of the trombone in pop

And check this out:
http://www.trombone-usa.com/tromb_z.htm

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Interesting Bob Brookmeyer article in the NYT.

His Basie-worship has eventually brought on a disdain for solos!

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 12 May 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

Dana Leong seems to know how to play

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

I really love the album with J.J. Johnson and Joe Pass, duo, v special.
Got it on eMusic and really fell in love with it...

― Saxby D. Elder (Saxby D. Elder), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

jeez, no love for Curtis Fuller in this thread?

― Saxby D. Elder (Saxby D. Elder), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Frank Rosolino's "Free for All"
Some righteous mainstream hard bop, with a great rhythm section to boot.

I'm only familiar with Curtis Fuller as a sideman, but recently I've been playing the hell out of Benny Golson's "Groovin' with Golson." Some great bone on that one.

― Øystein (Øystein), Saturday, 3 February 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a big fan of Nils Wogram and his Root 70 project. Really lyrical playing.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Saturday, 3 February 2007 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

Roswell Rudd solo on Carla Bley's "Tropic Appetites".

Trombone solo on Brownout's "Latin Funk for the Boogie Spot"

― factcheckr (factcheckr), Sunday, 4 February 2007 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

ah, this is so bad:

― Jordan, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 21:50 (seventeen years ago)

ALICE DONUT

Especially their version of "War Pigs" where the trombone plays Ozzy's vocal part.

But there's tons of great trombone all over their lost classic Pure Acid Park

― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 21:57 (seventeen years ago)

more UHoP shout choir:

― Jordan, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:16 (seventeen years ago)

that version of war pigs is terrible!

― Jordan, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 22:17 (seventeen years ago)

I never did hear any music from Alice Donut, although their interesting-looking cover model Chet seemed to pop up everywhere I went for a few years.

― Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 00:50 (seventeen years ago)

Anyway:
Profile: Barry Rogers

― Retrato Em Redd E Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 00:51 (seventeen years ago)

Wow.

― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 03:29 (seventeen years ago)

eight months pass...

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/m/moncur_grac_someother_101b.jpg

― m coleman, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 14:26 (sixteen years ago)

One that I don't see mentioned about: Conrad Bauer's Flüchtiges Glück. Solo trombone recorded al fresco, echoing across some frozen European lake.

― DLee, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 15:41 (sixteen years ago)

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