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Eldon Payne
Morristown, TN and
graduated cum laude
from the University of
Tennessee in Knoxville with a
B.S. in
Business Administration in
1979. He moved to Tampa, FL
in
the spring of 1980 and retired
from Delta Air Lines with
twenty five years of service
on Mar. 1, 2008. Some of the
groups which Eldon has
performed with are as
follows:
University of Tennessee
Campus Band, Tampa Bay
Buccaneer
Band, Shades of Blue,
Boulevard Jazz Orchestra,
The Mostly
Pops Orchestra, Helios Jazz
Orchestra, Cigar City Big
Band,
Swing Sound Orchestra,
Frankie D. New York
Orchestra,
Clearwater Community Jazz
Band, Sun City Center Big
Band,
George Carroll Big Band, Gulf
Bay Big Band, Ten O'clock Big
Band, Frank Parsons Band, Ed
Geimer Big Band, Encore IV
Big
Band, and The Sarasota Jazz
Project.
Eldon has performed at the
Clearwater Jazz Festival, the
Ybor Jazz Festival, the St.
Petersburg Jazz Festival and
jazz clubs and other venues
in the Tampa Bay area and
Sarasota.
Artists that Eldon has helped
back up include Margo Rey,
Denise Moore, Kathy Kosins,
Kevin Mahagony, Michael
Lynche, Bryan Hughes,
Lorri Hafer, Chuck Wansley, Whitney James, and
Alexis Cole.
Gear
Shires Vintage Elkhart Tenor Trombone .525 Bore Axial Flow Valve