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76 Degrees West Band
Official Biography courtesy of 76 Degrees West Band That's the longitude for the East Coast in the Western Hemisphere-precisely, Washington, D.C. The backup band has played behind numerous national acts such as Sax Man Jimmy Sommers,...
Aaron J Johnson
Aaron J. Johnson (Composer, Arranger, Tenor Trombone, Bass Trombone, and Tuba) is a native of Washington, DC, but currently works in the New York City area and lives in Irvington, New Jersey. A familiar sight in the large ensembles of...Aaron Salituro
Hi, world.Abe Lincoln
Abram "Abe" Lincoln was born in Lancaster, PA on March 29, 1907. At the age of 5, Abe began playing cornet. Under the direction of his father, Abe would practice scales every day and had to play them correctly each night before being...Abelen
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Aidan Chamberlain
Aidan has performed with many British orchestras. In London he has worked with the London Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Philharmonia and BBC Symphony Orchestra. He regularly appeared with the BBC Concert Ochestra which broadcasts the...
Al Grey
Trombonist Al Grey was famous as "the last of the big time plungers," for his mastery at using a plumber's plunger to manipulate the color of his instrument. The result was a soulful quality that sounds as if he's singing the blues. Grey...
Alan Ferber
Known internationally as a virtuoso jazz trombonist, Alan also shines as a bandleader. His current project on Fresh Sound New Talent (Alan Ferber Nonet, “Scenes From An Exit Row”) beautifully displays his unique ability to effectively...
Albert Mangelsdorff
Trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff pioneered the art of jazz polyphonics, introducing to the avant-garde the symphonic tradition of playing multiple notes simultaneously. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, on September 5, 1928, Mangelsdorff grew up...Alex Ketchum
He is a young trombonist.Alfred Winters
Born and raise in New York. Completed B.S. and M.S degrees from Hofstra University. Worked proffessionly since 1957. Studied with Metropolitan Opera Orchestra principal trombonist Roger Smith. Background includes playing with Bobby...
Andre Hayward
Andre Hayward is an extremely gifted trombonist with the sound and clarity reminiscent of the late J.J. Johnson. His gospel-tinged approach is refreshing and will warm the hearts of anyone he comes in contact with. He is by no means a...
Andrea Esperti
Andrea Esperti nasce a Mesagne (Brindisi) nel 1975. Si avvicina alla musica grazie al padre, sassofonista della banda del paese suonando prima la tromba e poi passando al trombone. Inizia cosi' a studiare a soli 8 anni per entrare nel...Andrew C. Kurcan
.Andrew Foertsch
Born in Chicago. Performed and recorded with Giant City/Aura 1970-1972 for Mercury Records. Played in various Big Bands in the Chicago area including the Chicago Grandstand Big Band, BJB, and the Bobby Christian Orchestra until 1980 when I...
Andy Clausen
Composer/Trombonist Andy Clausen, 19, gained significant national attention for his music while a high school student in Seattle, before moving to New York City to study at The Juilliard School in the Fall of 2010. Winning the 2009...Andy Hunter
Andy Hunter is an exciting, bold new voice on the New York music scene. A highly experienced leader and in-demand side man, he performs around the world with high profile artists such as the Mingus Big Band/Dynasty, Richard Bona, Nnenna...Atlantic City Jazz Band
Traditional Dixieland JazzAttila Korb
Attila KORB was born in 1983 Kecskemét. There’s a huge sum of classical effects on his jazz activities. His first instrument was the violin (from age 6 to 12). Then he started to play the trombone (age 13). In 1996 he had the...Barry Cooper
Discovering a love for jazz music while in high school, the Jacksonville, Florida native moved to New York City to attend The New School, where he studied with veteran jazz masters. That decision led to him becoming a student and mentee of...
Barry Mosley
Mosley's first Jazz influence at age twelve was listening to a Chet Baker recording. Many years later was invited by Chet to sit in with him several times in the mid 1980's, which was a great musical thrill. Other strong influences include...Barry Rogers
Barry Rogers - trombone (1935 - 1991) Barry Rogers is widely recognized as being the most influential trombone soloist in New York's formative Salsa scene from the early 1960's through the late 80's. The sound which he created...
Ben Lupinacci
Ben Lupinacci was born in Holy Oak, Massachusetts, in 1991. He got his first instrument in 5th grade. He then moved to Pennsylvania in 2000 where he continued to practice trombone. Although always serious with his music, Ben realized...Ben Patterson
Ben Patterson is a jazz trombonist with the Airmen of Note. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area where he is active in the jazz, latin, and commercial music scenes. Ben can be heard featured on the Alan Baylock Jazz Orchestra release,...
Bennie Green
Bennie Green was one of the few trombonists of the 1950s who played in a style not influenced by J.J. Johnson (Bill Harris was another). His witty sound and full tone looked backwards to the swing era yet was open to the influence of...
Benny Powell
Born in New Orleans, Powell is, perhaps, best known for his 12-year tenure (1951-63) with Count Basie, and for his eight-bar contribution to the Count's all-time big hit, "April in Paris." But more than that, Powell, in his all-too-rare...Beppe Di Benedetto
Beppe Di Benedetto is trombone player, composer and arranger born in Italy. Beppe’s passion for music began at age12 when one day his father came home with a strange black suitcase in his hand. Inside it was a shiny instrument. The...Bill Allred
It all started in New Orleans, Bill's grandmother was born near New Orleans in the town of Franklin. His Father, John, was a jazz pianist and banjoist on many of the steamboats of the great "Strickfus Line" playing in and around New...Bill Bissonnette
New Orleans style trombonist/drummer
Bill Hughes
Trombonist Bill Hughes, the Director of the Count Basie Orchestra since 2003, was born in Texas in 1930 in the midst of the Depression. Hughes’s family moved to Washington, DC when he was nine years old. His father, who worked for the...
Bill Lowe
Bass trombonist and tubaist Bill Lowe has been a major force in the music world for over thirty years as a performer, composer, producer, and educator. He has worked with most of the masters of African-American creative music, across...Bill Ohashi
Bill Ohashi's is a prolific and well-heeled trombonist from New York City with extensive experience with international jazz, Latin, R & B, rock, blues, as well as, chamber classical. Bill's arranging style and watchful direction give 'The...Bill Tole
BILL TOLE BIOGRAPHY Born in Pittsburgh, PA., Bill Tole comes from a musical family. His father was a high school band director and a representative for Selmer and King musical corporations for many years and has been active as a...
Bill Watrous
One of the finest bop-oriented trombonists of the past 30 years, Bill Watrous has had a low profile since moving to Los Angeles in the 1980s despite remaining quite active. Possessor of a beautiful tone and remarkable technique, Watrous...
Bob Brookmeyer
Bob Brookmeyer has an unusually varied and extensive background in all forms of improvised and composed music. He was born December 19, 1929, attended Kansas City Conservatory of Music where he won the Carl Busch Prize for Choral...Bob Cochran
Bob Cochran started playing the trombone at age 12. His trombone teachers include Jack Harris, Lauren Buslee, Robert Bailey, Edward Huttlin and Tom Ervin. Bob has attended clinics given by Urbie Green, Ralph Sauer and Bob McChesney. Bob...
Bob Edmondson
An original member of Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, Bob worked and recorded with artists such as Harry James, Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Shelly Manne, Terry Gibbs, Gerald Wilson and others from 1953-1983. He also worked extensively as...
Bob McChesney
Trombonist Bob McChesney was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1956, and began studying the trombone at the age of nine. McChesney holds a bachelor's Degree from the State University of New York at Fredonia. In 1979, Bob moved to Los Angeles...Bodereau Jol
festival de Montreal, Montreux, Le Mans, Paris, Nantes, Vannes, Langourla, Coutances
Bonerama
Even in a city that doesn’t play by the rules, New Orleans’ Bonerama is something different. They can evoke vintage funk, classic rock and free improvisation in the same set; maybe even the same song. Bonerama has been...
Brett Sroka
Brett Sroka is a native of Lexington, Massachusetts and began playing the trombone at age ten. He received his B.A. from the Manhattan School of Music in 1997, studying with trombonists Britt Woodman and Steve Turre, and undertaking his...
Brian Drye
Brian Drye plays trombone and lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife Mechelle. Originally from Rhode Island, he grew up with a musician father (Howard Drye) exposing him to classical and improvised music and studied at the University of...Bruce Fowler
Bruce Fowler is a prominent American trombone player and composer. He notably played trombone on many Frank Zappa records, as well as with Captain Beefheart, and in the Fowler Brothers Band. Currently, he composes and arranges music for...
Buddy Morrow
Throughout his career, Buddy Morrow loved playing with big bands and doing what he could to keep nostalgic swing alive. He began playing trombone when he was 12 and within two years was working locally. Morrow developed quickly and moved...
Buster Cooper
Cooper was born in St. Petersburg, Florida. He played in a territory band with Nat Towles in Texas in the late 1940s, and gigged with Lionel Hampton in 1953. He played in the house band at the Apollo Theater in New York City in the...Calvin Green
East-West Coast Trombonist.
Carl Fontana
It is an odd fact that all the really outstanding jazz trombonists were very low on ego. Carl Fontana, perhaps the most gifted player of his time, certainly was. He played potent and dazzling music in such a facile way that it was rather...
Chip Tingle
CHIP TINGLE FREELANCE TROMBONIST/EDUCATOR/CLINICIAN/AGENT/PROMOTER Performing, recording, and education credits including: Pop artists such as Ray Charles, Johnny Mathis, Temptations, Sam Moore, Martha Reeves, Shirley Jones, Red...
Chris Abelen
first studied classical trombone, then switched to impro (Willem van Manen) in Amsterdam. Played with the Willem Breuker Kollektief for ± 3 years. After this period he started his own bands, first a sextet, after a short period changing...
Chris Barber
Jazz musician, born in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, SE England, UK. A trombonist and vocalist, he joined the Ken Colyer band, taking it over in 1954. By the end of the decade the Chris Barber Jazz Band was well established, and had...Chris Greive
Born in Perth, Western Australia in 1969, CHRIS GREIVE started playing music at the age of 11. Trumpet was his first choice because he preferred the look and sound of his dad's Louis Armstrong record to his Chris Barber album. But he was...Chris Washburne
Chris Washburne is one of those rare musicians whose musical activities cross many styles and cultural borders. From early in his career he refused to be pigeon-holed as just being a jazz or classical player, but instead has continually...
Christian Pincock
Christian Pincock is a trombonist and composer in the New York area who works in many different musical situations and settings. Throughout his career as a performing artist, he has played in jazz big bands, standard jazz groups, rock...
Christopher Butcher
Chris Butcher is a trombone player quickly establishing himself as a unique force in the Canadian jazz scene. Chris lives in Toronto, having moved from his hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba to study at Humber College’s prestigious jazz...Clark Gayton
You would be hard-pressed to identify a musician as comfortable with classical music as he is with jazz, indie rock, folk and reggae. You would be equally hard-pressed to identify a musician who can rock with Levon Helm (formerly of The...
Clifton Anderson
Clifton grew up surrounded by music. His father was a church organist and choir director, and his mother, a singer and pianist. One of his uncles was an accomplished violinist, while another uncle was and remains a Jazz legend. Growing up...
Conny Bauer
Konrad Conny Bauer (born 4th July, 1943 in Halle an der Saale) began to play guitar at 16 after his family had moved to the Thuringian town of Sonneberg in 1957. In various amateur dance bands he went on to also play trumpet, alto...
Conrad Herwig
Conrad Herwig began his professional career in 1980 with the Clark Terry Big Band and later joined the Buddy Rich Orch. for tours of the US and Europe. After locating permanently in New York he performed with Slide Hampton’s World...Craig Brenan
Trombonist, composer and educator Craig Brenan has been an active performer throughout Canada. A graduate of the New England Conservatory where he received his Master's degree in Jazz Performance, Craig has had the opportunity to work and...Craig S. Harris
When Craig Harris exploded onto the jazz scene in 1976, he brought the entire history of the jazz trombone with him. From the growling gutbucket intensity of early New Orleans music through the refined, articulate improvisation of the...Crossbones
CROSSBONES is made up of some of Ireland’s brightest young talents on the Irish music scene. Boasting the unique line up of trombone & bass trombone, CROSSBONES offer a fresh perspective on jazz music. All of the compositions on the...
Curtis Fowlkes
Curtis Fowlkes is an American jazz trombonist. In 1987 he founded, together with saxophonist {{m: Roy Nathanson = 15690}}, The Jazz Passengers, an eclectic group dedicated to putting entertainment and humor back into jazz. The two had met...
Curtis Fuller
Curtis Fuller was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1934. He came to music late, playing the baritone horn in high school and switching to the trombone at age 16. Detroit, at the time, was the breeding ground for an astonishing pool of fresh,...
Dan Gabel
About Dan Gabel: Dan Gabel is an in-demand bandleader, trombonist, arranger, historian, and is the CEO and President of the American Big Band Preservation Society, Inc. (ABBPS), a Boston-based not- for-profit organization. Gabel...Dan Gottshall
Jazz Trombone, Non-Corny Vocals Lead Trombonist - NDR Big Band
Dan Lehner
Dan Lehner is a freelance trombonist, composer and educator in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. Born in Hamilton, New Jersey, Lehner briefly attended University of the Arts in Philadelphia before finishing his...Darrell J. Walker
Hello, my name is Darrell J. Walker. Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Fled Katrina August 2005 and currently reside in Englewood, NJ, right over GWB. Here is some info: I am an AWESOME trombone player in the real New Orleans...
Daryl McKenzie
Daryl McKenzie (Musical Director & Trombone) Has directed the Daryl McKenzie Jazz Orchestra for the past six years playing with artists such as Bill Watrous, James Morrison, Wilbur Wilde, Nichaud Fitzgibbon and Nina Ferro....
Dave Bargeron
Dave Bargeron is a versatile low-brass jazz artist hailing from Athol, Massachusetts, USA. He won his first lead trombone job playing with Clark Terry's Big Band and from 1968-1970 played Bass Trombone and Tuba with Doc Severinsen's Band....Dave Bones
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Dave Glenn
Dave Glenn, Director of Jazz Studies and professor of low brass at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, received a Bachelor of Music in trombone performance from North Texas State University and a Master of Music in composition from...Dave Martell
Dave has been playing professionally for over 35 years . He has performed with Earl Hines, Cab Calloway, Natalie Cole, The Temptations, the Four Tops, Johnny Mathis, Lou Rawls, Burt Bacharach, Pete Escovedo, and Jimmy Heath among others....
David Gibson
Trombonist David Gibson has enjoyed a varied musical career which is deeply rooted in the genres of jazz and funk. While reared in Oklahoma, Gibson’s musical journey steered him to New York City. Jazz luminary Curtis Fuller said about...
David Manson
David's musical experiences range from opera to soukous to avant garde to jazz to brass quintet to orchestra to Zappa (Bogus Pomp) and so on. He has been soloist and/or composer with the BONK New Music Festival, Subtropics New Music...David Marriott, Jr.
Described by one reviewer as a "canny and imaginative player whose solos display an extraordinary sense of architecture and conception", award-winning trombonist David Marriott is a musician for the next generation - equally at home as a...David Wilder
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Deborah Weisz
From playing in the Sahara Desert, just North of Timbuktu, with Roswell Rudd’s Trombone Shout Band (2004), to creating music in a grain silo at an artist colony in upstate New York, to traveling all over the world with Frank Sinatra...
Delfeayo Marsalis
Delfeayo Marsalis is one of the top trombonists, composers and producers in jazz today. Known for his “technical excellence, inventive mind and frequent touches of humor…” (Leonard Feather, Los Angeles Times), he is “…one of...
Denis Beuret
Denis Beuret was born in Semsales Delemont, Switzerland. He is a composer and trombonist in serveral contemporary music ensembles featuring jazz, improv, electroni music, and specializing in sound research.
Dennis Rollins
Born in Birmingham, England in 1964 of Jamaican parents, Dennis cut his teeth at the age of 14 studying and performing with The Doncaster Youth Jazz Association. After years of concentrated study Dennis moved to London where his unique...Dennis Wilson
After graduating from Berklee College of Music, Dennis Wilson began his professional career with Lionel Hampton as trombonist, arranger, and musical director. He has been a lead/solo trombonist for the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, The New...
Dick Griffin
Dick Griffin (b. James Richard Griffin in Jackson, Mississippi, 1939) is an American trombonist known for his work in free jazz, especially with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the Sun Ra Arkestra, and Charles Mingus. As a child he studied piano,...
Dick Nash
Richard Taylor Nash, for the best part of half a century Dick Nash has been 'first call' in the Hollywood studios, working with such great composers as Alfred Newman, Henry Mancini and John Williams, to name but a few. the well known...Dicky Wells
Later.Don Benham
Trombonist in Santa Fe Opera, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Oakland Symphony, San Francisco Ballet. Full Faith and Credit Big Band. Teacher and Arranger.
Don Drummond
“He was a musical prophet created by the people, not one imposing himself on them in pursuit of stardom, but having it thrust upon him. Drummond observed their tribulations and aspirations then reshaped them into a blues allegory...
Doug Beavers
Internationally regarded as cutting-edge trombonist and a renown producer, composer, orchestrator and “arranger of the first-class” (Harvey Siders, JazzTimes), Doug Beavers has earned a Grammy® for his work on Eddie...Doug Finke
Doug discovered jazz in the 1950's as a young band student at York Community High School in Elmhurst, Illinois. He was heavily influenced by the simple, gutsy style of Chicago trombonist Jim Beebe. By the early 1960's Doug was playing and...
Doug Purviance
Native of South Orange, NJ, Douglas Purviance has worked professionally in the United States and abroad for well over three decades. After raduating from Towson State University in 1975, he established himself during a two-year engagement,...
Ed Byrne
Ed Byrne, trombonist, composer/arranger from Philadelphia, has worked with many of the world’s greatest performing artists: Chet Baker, Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Maynard Ferguson, Billy Eckstine,...
Eddie Bert
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Eldon Payne
Eldon was born in 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...
Elliot Mason
Elliot Mason (Trombone), born in England on January 13, 1977, began trumpet lessons with his father at age four and at age seven, took up the piano. However, struck with an overwhelming curiosity in his father's trombone, young Mason...Emily Asher
Trombonist and vocalist Emily Asher is a rising musical personality in the New York City area, playing regularly with the Brooklyn based Baby Soda Jazz Band, Gordon Au’s Grand Street Stompers and with her own groups. She has toured...
Erik Johannessen
Erik Johannessen was born July 22th 1975 in Oslo, Norway. Grew up on Lambertseter in the suburbs. Started playing trombone at eight and piano at ten, and decided early to be a musician. Started playing jazz at sixteen, and played in his...
Erling Kroner
ERLING KRONER A Condensed Biography Erling Kroner, born April 16, 1943 in Copenhagen, Denmark, started playing the trombone in 1959 with various Dixieland bands. Went to Germany 1961 with Danish Trad Band Dixieland Stompers and again...
Ernest Stuart
Music began in the life of Ernest Stuart at the age of 12 while in middle school. He dreamt of playing saxophone, but soon realized that his dream of being a musician had come to a screetching halt when his mother, a single parent of two,...Francesco Salomoni
Francesco Salomoni approached flute at age 8, soon switching on guitar. During the years he spent in Cremona, Italy, he had his first classical education and became a name in the local music scene. After moving to Rome he fell in love with...
Frank Rehak
Rehak, one of the finest bop players of the fifties and sixties, first came to fame in 1949, when he joined Gene Krupa’s Orchestra along with fellow trombonist Frank Rosolino. Besides from having stints with the Woody Herman Big Band in...
Frank Rosolino
Frank Rosolino will be remembered and respected throughout the contemporary jazz world for his mastery of the trombone, his uncanny ability to fit and work successfully with a wide range of musical ideas, and perhaps last but not entirely...
Fred Wesley
Through his ventures as a trombonist, arranger, and composer, Fred Wesley has established himself as one of the preeminent funk musicians. Wesley has performed with artists such as James Brown, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and Maceo...Freddy Fuego
An alum of Berklee College of Music, Freddy currently freelances with numerous bands and ensembles around New York City and Boston, while leading his own band as Freddy Fuego. He has shared the stage with first-class artists such as Brian...
Gary Tole
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, Gary Tole began playing the trombone at the age of twelve. By the age of sixteen, he was working with the all the shows that came into the Pittsburgh area. After attending Duquesne University School of...George Jones
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George Lewis
George Lewis (born 1952) is a jazz trombone player and composer. In addition to his own recordings, he has recorded or performed with Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Conny Bauer and others. He is a contemporary and colleague of...
George Roberts
George began his career with Ray Robbins Band before joining Gene Krupa in 1947, where he was in the same section with Urbie Green. It was Urbie's lyric tenor trombone playing that inspired George to be an Urbie, one octave...
Gianluca Petrella
Gianluca Petrella born in Bari Italy, graduating from the Conservatory of Bari in 1994. In 1993 he began a long collaboration with soprano saxophone player Roberto Ottaviano, recording the project KoinF with Michel Godard (tuba),...Glen David Andrews
Growing up in the historic Treme "Trah-May" neighborhood of New Orleans, Andrews was immersed in the local musical culture from childhood. One of the first African American neighborhoods in America, the Faubourg Treme or "Sixth Ward" was...
Glenn Miller
Shortly after the beginning of the 20th century, in a small rural Southwestern Iowa town, a boy was born to Elmer and Mattie Lou Miller. The date was March 1, 1904 and the town was Clarinda. The boy that was born that night was named Alton...
Grachan Moncur III
Grachan Moncur III was born in New York City at Sydenham Hospital on June 3, 1937 into a musical family that included his Uncle Al Cooper, leader of the Savoy Sultans, and Grachan's father, Grachan Brother Moncur II who played bass as a...
Gregory Charles Royal
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Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø (born in Trondheim 29.07.86) is a Norwegian trombonist mainly involved with different types of improvised music, both strictly organized and strictly un-organized. He currently plays with As deafness...
J.J. Johnson
Considered by many to be the finest jazz trombonist of all time, J.J. Johnson somehow transferred the innovations of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie to his more awkward instrument, playing with such speed and deceptive ease that at one...
Jack Teagarden
Jack Teagarden was a trombone player, singer, and band leader whose career spanned from the 1920’s territory and New York jazz scenes to shortly before his death in 1964. Teagarden was not a successful band leader, which may explain why...James Hall
James Hall is a jazz trombonist and composer living in New York City. Originally from Omaha, Nebraska, he graduated from the Lawrence Conservatory of Music in 2007. He then spent two years at the helm of James Hall Group in Vienna,...
Jason Camelio
Usually sequestered in a corner of the basement converted into a pseudo-project studio, Jason can be found plunking away on a piano, guitar, trombone, tweaking knobs, stomping on pedals, punching notes into a computer, or sketching out...
Jason Jackson
Jason has been a regular member of the Grammy Award winning Vanguard Jazz Orchestra for 10 years and the lead trombonist with the Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band, directed by Slide Hampton, since 2004. In addition, he is presently the...
Jay T. Vonada
Jay T. Vonada, of Aaronsburg Pennsylvania, had his debut CD, Jammin', released on Tuesday July 22, 2008. His latest CD, Red Pajamas, will be released in Janurary of 2012. This new recording features trombone, organ and drums. Jammin'...
Jazz Celebration Big Band
17 piece jazz orchestra featuring vocalist Claudia Perry
JC Sanford
http://www.jcsanford.com/ Trombonist/composer/conductor JC Sanford is a musician of rare breadth, deeply rooted in the traditions of Jazz and Classical music, yet constantly pushing at their boundaries. Equally at home in many...
Jeff Albert
Jeff Albert is a trombonist and improviser based in New Orleans, LA. Free jazz is the most accurate generic descriptor for his music, which places high value on melody and interaction, but is informed by his multi-faceted background and...
Jeff Galindo
Jazz Musician and Educator Born in San Francisco, California, Jeff Galindo attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts on scholarship after high school. He also studied with Hal Crook, Jerry Bergonzi, and George Garzone...
Jerry Tilitz
JERRY TILITZ is a american trombonist,composer and vocalist from New York City presently ensconced in Hamburg, Germany. In the course of his career Mr. Tilitz has performed and recorded with many exceptional artists including Gerry...
Jim Lutz
Jim is the bandleader and trombonist in Cirque du Soleil's Kooza, which is currently touring North America. More information is available at Kooza's site. Jim completed his master's degree in jazz...
Jim Pugh
Jim Pugh is a distinguished trombonist, composer, and educator. The inspiring virtuosity and wonderful versatility he has demonstrated during the course of his career has caused Jim to be often honored as the "musician’s musician"....
Jimmy Bosch
Jimmy Bosch - trombone Salsa Dura… Jimmy Bosch plays it, lives it, and tells it like it is! A fiery exponent of the progressive sound he calls “Salsa Dura” (Hard Salsa), Bosch masterfully portrays his life experiences and musical...
Jimmy Cleveland
Jimmy Cleveland was an American jazz trombonist born in Wartrace, Tennessee. Cleveland has worked with many well-known jazz musicians, including Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Quincy Jones, Lucky...
Jimmy Knepper
Jimmy Knepper, a jazz trombonist best known for his productive but stormy association with Charles Mingus. Over the course of a career that began when he was in his teens, Mr. Knepper was a featured soloist in countless bands, big and...Jimmy Landis
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Joe Beaty
Joe is a jazz trombonist from Beaumont Texas. A broken home, addicted parents and health problems were no obstacle for Joe and his twin brother to overcome. From an early age the Texas Twins' musical talents landed them full scholarships...Joe Escobar
Joe Escobar has become known for his excellent trombone work, smooth voice and swinging renditions of the old Sinatra style classics. While many male vocalists in this genre try to impersonate the likes of Frank Sinatra and Bobby Darin,...
Joe Fiedler
Trombonist/composer Joe Fiedler is known to critics as "among the most impressive trombonists to emerge in the past couple of decades" (Harvey Pekar, Signal to Noise) and "an MVP in configurations that range from salsa bands to the....jpg)
Joe Gil
Joe Gil is a native of Brooklyn, New York. He started playing the trombone in sixth grade. Many people have asked me why I chose the trombone. " The main reason was that when I was in grade school they needed people for the band. I knew if...
Joe Reidy
Joe Reidy, the Founder of Wachusett Jazz, is a trombonist and vocalist, he also doubles on guitar, and percussion. He has worked with international, national and regional performers in the fields of Jazz, Rock and Classical music. In...
Johannes Bauer
- born 1954 in Halle/Saale (GDR), studied music (trombone) in East-Berlin- since 1979 freelance improvising musician, lives in Berlin
- leader of several workshop bands
- member and founder of Doppelmoppel, Slawterhaus, The...
John Fedchock
John Fedchock established his career as a jazz trombonist in 1980 when he joined the legendary Woody Herman Orchestra. He toured with Woody's "Thundering Herd" for seven years, during which time he was musical director and a featured...
John Hines
John Hines has been playing in and around the Denver area for the past ten years, and is now achieving recognition beyond his home market. "Hines plays his ax with prime advanced harmonic ideas, certainly with liquid phrasing, & an...John Knight
John Knight John is a native of Missoula, Montana, he works as a freelance trombonist and composer both in Paris and New York. His professional experience includes a broad range of styles, from Big Bands, Ska-Jazz, and Afro-Cuban music...
John Yao
Owing to his versatility as a trombonist, composer, and arranger, Yao has enjoyed a steady rise on the New York City jazz scene since arriving from his native Chicago in 2005. He has worked extensively as a sideman for such iconic...
Jon Blondell
We would like to present Jon Blondell to you. His first solo effort “ALIVE the Elephant Room”, was released on Fable Records in July 2010. It is an enticing album with many tracks that everyone can enjoy. Recorded on February 9th and...
Jon Hatamiya
Trombonist, composer, and B.A.C. Endorsing Artist Jon Hatamiya is one of the most promising trombonists to come out of the Sacramento area and is rapidly making a name for himself on the New York Music scene. He was recognized in the...
Jose Davila
JOSE DAVILA trombonist and tubist Jose has defined himself as a major player in the New York Freelance music scene, actively engaged in the potpourri of musical life in NYC. A native from Puerto Rico and raised on the East Coast...
Josh Brown
Known for his warm dark sound and effortless sense of swing, Canadian-born Josh Brown has become one of the leading young trombonists in New York City. Josh has enjoyed a steady and diverse musical career, having played all over the world...Josh Diaz
Trombone player.
Josh Roseman
Trombonist/composer Josh Roseman was born and raised in the Boston metropolitan area. He has been living in New York City since 1990, where he has become a prominent new voice in the improvising musicians' community. In the mid-1980's the...
Juan Tizol
Juan Tizol was born in San Juan Puerto Rico on Jan. 22, 1900, started music lessons early, was trained as a valve trombonist and as a teenager played in the San Juan Municipal Band. Tizol moved to the U.S. in 1920 and became valve...
Julian Priester
Julian Priester is an American jazz trombonist and composer. He has played with many artists including Sun Ra, Max Roach, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock. Priester attended Chicago's DuSable High School, where he studied...
Kai Winding
Kai Winding - trombone (1922 - 1983) Trombonist Kai Christen Winding (pronounced ki-win-ding) was one of the founding fathers of be-bop music and truly one of the finest-ever jazz trombonists. As a sideman to bop’s reigning kings...
Katja Toivola
Trombonist Katja Toivola has been acquainted with the music styles of New Orleans for over fifteen years. She made her first visit to the Crescent City in 1995, and now divides her time between her two hometowns: Helsinki and New Orleans....Keith Pitner
Studying music since the age of 10, trombonist Keith Pitner has been described by the Dundee Weekly Journal as "...technically astounding and musically refreshing." He won the Illinois High School Association's Best Trombonist award two...Kevin Neal
Born in St. Louis, MO and raised outside of Pittsburgh, PA, Kevin was exposed to music at a very early age, studying piano and singing in church as a toddler. At age 10, he began studying the trombone and by age 15 had decided...
Kevin Quail
Kevin Quail, trombonist, age 50(in dog years),has been playing jazz way long enough to know better, has played or recorded with Charles McPherson, Andy Simpkins, Mike Wofford, Sherman Ferguson, Donald Bailey, Harold Jones, Herman Riley,...Kevin Schmidt
I am a bass trombonist and composer, formerly based in Minneapolis, MN and now based in New York City. My projects encompass modern jazz, free jazz, electronica, chamber compositions and avant rock. Since moving to New York City, my bands...Kevin Stout
Kevin Stout has been a freelance jazz trombonist in Las Vegas, Nevada, for many years, where he has worked with Joe Piscopo, The Four Tops, Don Rickles and Frank Sinatra Jr., among many others. His credits include the Don Menza Big Band...
Kid Ory
Edward Ory was born in LaPlace, Louisiana, on Christmas Day 1886. As a child, he began to make music on homemade instruments. He soon was playing banjo, then switched to trombone. Ory went on to introduce and develop the “tailgate”...Lamar Harris
Lamar Harris is a talented musician as well as an experienced producer writer, and arranger. At an early age Lamar Harris, born Byron Lamar Harris, began perfecting the trombone, slide trumpet, and the tuba. His love for live...Louis Nelson
Louis Nelson - trombone (1902 - 1990) Louis Nelson, a jazz trombonist who was the last surviving musician from the original Preservation Hall Band. At the time of his death, in 1990, age 87, Nelson was still playing at...Louise Cuming
Louise Cuming's tone is characterised as a distinctive gentle rasp that floats between a drawl, a yodel and a cat sneezing. Her subtle music is beautiful and embracing as it is stark and slippery. Cuming chronicles the unseen surburbia-...
Luis Bonilla
If ever an artist could be called an octopus, Luis Bonilla is it. The California raised, Costa Rican trombonist, composer and arranger has sought out, taken in and mastered an incredible array of musical styles. His success as a sideman...
Marc Smason
Trombonist/vocalist/composer, Marc Smason learned to sing as a child in Texas and studied classical trombone in Seattle and Los Angeles with Stu Dempster, Julian Priester, Ken Cloud & Slide Hampton. Voice with Jay Clayton (jazz), Yo Jin...
Marcel Schot
Marcel Schot born in the Netherlands ,began his musical career playing Euphonium. After two years he switched to the trombone and bought a Vincent Bach 36B, In 1989, after getting his degree electronic engineer, he went to the Rotterdam...Marco Katz Montiel
Marco Katz composed and performed the soundtrack for the 2000 production of Zoey’s Zoo (Oh Yeah! Cartoons). His recording of Tubby the Tuba Meets a Jazz Band came out on Koch in 2007. Marco has recorded with Charlie Palmieri and other...
Marcus Lewis
Marcus Lewis is a musician creating Jazz/Improvised music in the now with integrity and passion that resonates with the human experience. His melodies are lyrical, expressive and will have you singing after hearing them. Described as...Mario Vavti
Mario Vavti, born 1973 in Klagenfurt, Austria. At the moment living in Vienna, Austria. Working as freelance trombonist, composer and arranger. The major motivation for me to start a professional career as a musician was the strong...
Mark Miller (trombone)
Mark grew up in Racine, Wisconsin and attended nearby Carthage College. In 1992 he moved to Minneapolis to study at the University of Minnesota with Tom Ashworth and Ron McCurdy. An ever- present sound on the Twin Cities music scene in...
Mark Patterson
Mark Patterson, a Convergence member since 2000, attempts to keep a variety of music playing on his collection of twentieth-century trombones. He explored the roads of Japan with section-mates Jim Pugh, Bill Watrous, and David Taylor in...Mark Richards
I have been playing for many years. Industrial player.
Marshall Gilkes
Marshall Gilkes was born September 30th, 1978 in Camp Springs, Maryland. Marshall’s father was a musician in the Air Force, which meant growing up in different parts of the country including Washington D.C., New Hampshire, New Jersey,...Martin Sullivan
Martin has spent the last eight years away from his home state of California to pursue the study and performance of music. During this time he received a bachelor’s degree in music from Indiana University and a master’s degree in music...Mary Kennedy
I play in a big band called Flipside and also in a concert band through Lampeter Stasburg (Lampeter Strasburg Community Band) both directed by Howard Boots.Matt Ball
As well as leading his own groups (the Matthew Ball Quintet, Gourmet Jazz and the Brideshead Ballroom Stompers), matthew is an accomplished jazz player, session musician and lead-trombonist. Since graduating from Leeds College of Music,...
Matthias Mueller
Matthias Müller trombone, composition, improvisationborn in zeven/germany studies at “carl-von-ossietzky” university oldenburg and at “folkwang hochschule” essen
regular appearances superimpose, the astronomical unit,...
Mattis Cederberg
Mattis CederbergMusician/Composer/Graphic Designer/Web Designer
Born 18:th August 1971 - Leo
Lives in Köln/Cologne since Sept.2002
Basstrombone-player WDR Big Band Köln
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Max Perkoff
Infinite Search, the Max Perkoff Band, the brand new CD by the Max Perkoff Band, represents Max Perkoff's most compelling project to date. That's saying a lot, for as a trombonist, pianist, composer and bandleader, Max Perkoff is a...
May Peters
Versatile trombone master May Peters was born in 1964 in Echt- Netherlands, and started to play the flute at the age of five. While still very young she started to study horn and became a member of the local brass band. At age fifteen she...Melba Liston
Born in Kansas City, Melba moved to Los Angeles as a child, and became a working musician at age sixteen. She learned to arrange and write, as well as play, and quickly found herself snapped up by Gerald Wilson, who hired her as a...Melissa Jean
Emerging jazz trombonist Melissa Jean has been described by Curtis Fuller as technically creative and emotionally powerful. Her improvisation is inspiring and motivating for the listener, and she draws you in with a raw expression that...Michael Barker
Trombonist with funk/soul/fusion band Digging Deeper since 2007.
Michael Boscarino
New York trombonist Michael Boscarino is a native of Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania. He began his musical studies at age 7 on the piano. At age 11, he began playing the trombone on the advice of his grandfather and hasn’t looked back...Michael Dease
Trombonist Michael Dease has won high praise for his skills as a player, composer, and producer. Since his arrival in 2001, Dease has already developed a distinctive personal sound that leaves a lasting impression with musicians, critics...
Michael Dessen
Michael Dessen is a composer-improviser who performs on the slide trombone and computer. Active in a variety of ensembles as leader or collaborator, he creates music for improvisers and engages new technologies of telepresence and digital...
Michael Gibbs
Mike Gibbs - composer, arranger and trombonist has worked with many music luminaries, including Pat Metheny, John McLaughlin, John Scofield, Narada Michael Walden, Michael Mantler, Gary Burton, Whitney Houston, Peter Gabriel, Bill...Michael Jordan
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Michael Rorby
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Michal Tomaszczyk
MICHAL TOMASZCZYK – trombone player, composer, arranger, born in 1986 in Poland. Graduated from Jazz Trombone and Jazz Composing and Arranging classes at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland. He is a leader...Michele Benvenuti
Curriculum musicale di Michele Benvenuti Studi Dall'età di 12 anni studia privatamente il violino. Dal 1994 suona il trombone. Dal 94 al 98 segue il corso di trombone presso la "civica scuola di musica classica" di Milano, senza...Mike Christianson
Originally from Fargo, North Dakota- Mike is fortunate to be living his dream, making a living as a New York City musician. Cursed with and open mind and a willingness to try things, he is involved in the NYC scene in many ways. Mike...
Mike Fahie
Trombonist and composer Mike Fahie has been active performing and writing music in New York for 10 years. Mike has performed around the globe as a member of different professional ensembles, including tours of the U.S., Canada, and...Nadav Nirenberg
At 24, Nadav Nirenberg is quickly establishing himself as a trombonist/bandleader in New York City. In addition to co-leading "Ikebe Shakedown", a Brooklyn-based instrumental Afro-Funk group, he's in high-demand as a session player/sideman...
Nate Mayland
Since January 2001 Nathan Mayland has lived as a professional musician in New York City. He is an experienced freelancer on both tenor and bass trombone, euphonium and tuba as well as an arranger/composer of music for his...Nathan Dell-Vandenberg
Creatively exploring the trombone As a trombonist, composer, arranger, and bandleader, Nathan Dell-Vandenberg has an insatiable thirst for exploration. Growing up in Toronto, Ontario with an artist for a mother and father who embraced new...
Nick Finzer
Award winning musician Nick Finzer is a jazz trombonist and composer whose musical prowess is firmly planted with one foot in the past and another leading to the future. In January of 2013 Nick released his recording debut as a bandleader...Nick Roach
Student in jazz trombone at UNT
Nick Vayenas
After years of juggling life as a creative musician on the NYC scene to touring the globe as a sidekick to one of the music industries biggest stars, Nick Vayenas is ready to step into the spotlight as a musician of style and substance....
Noah Bless
Style and execution merge gracefully in the trombone playing of Noah Bless, who has been performing for over 20 years. Since arriving to New York City in 1990 Noah has contributed his authoritative sound to over 50 albums for various...
Oscar Utterstrom
Trombonist Oscar Utterström plays his horn with a warm and sensitive tone. Mixing straight ahead jazz with elements of rock and electronica, the Oscar’s music is the ultimate experience in improvised music. Oscar's writing mixes...
Papo Vazquez
Papo Vazquez - trombone Trombonist, composer, arranger Papo Vazquez has continued to write for big band orchestras, when not performing with his small group Pirates Troubadours. Papo, originally from Philadelphia, recently received a...Paul Emmett
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Paul Rutherford
Born Greenwich, London, 29 February 1940, trombone, euphonium, piano. A stalwart of the early UK free scene who has played in, and contributed positively to, just about every available possibility, in more structured musics as well as...Pedro Colon
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Per Gade
Per Gade was born in Denmark (1944) and raised in Copenhagen by an artistic family whose descent can be traced to the composer bearing the same surname. He became the first trombone professor in Denmark! Per Gade was interested in music...Pere Masafret Marcé
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Pete McGuinness
Pete McGuinness has been an active New York City jazz trombonist, composer-arranger (2008 GRAMMY nominee for his big band/vocal arrangement of "Smile"), vocalist, bandleader and jazz educator since 1987. As a young man growing up in...
Peter Herbolzheimer
Herbolzheimer migrated from communist Romania to West Germany in 1951. In 1953 he moved to the United States of America, where he worked as guitarist. He returned to Germany in 1957, took up the trombone and for one year studied...Peter Rens
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Phil Ranelin
Phillip Arthur Ranelin was born in Indianapolis, Indiana where he grew up under the influence of J.J. Johnson, Wes Montgomery, Earmon Hubbard, Pookie Johnson, Russell Webster, Willis Kirk, Jimmy Coe and Melvin Rhyne. Ranelin is loved and...
Philip Yaeger
Born in Northern Maine, Philip Yaeger learned to sing as soon as he could talk. Improvisation came naturally to him and by the age of fourteen he was playing engagements with a jazz trio - not an easy thing to accomplish in a town of ten...Philipp Zarfl
Born 1991 in Wolfsberg/Austria, Philipp started playing trombone at the age of 13 in the local music school. Currently (from 2007 on) he studies with Andi Mittermayer at the Conservatory in Klagenfurt/Austria.Phillip Erskine
Amateur Jazz Trombonist in Dayton, OH.Rafi Malkiel
Composer, trombonist and euphonium player Rafi Malkiel, originally from Jerusalem, has shared his talent with audiences around the world, playing Jazz & Latin music in his unique and captivating style. Leading his quintet, Malkiel plays...
Ramon Fossati
Ramon Fossati, trombone, shells, composition, arrangements. Originally from Barcelona. He has performed in many festivals in France, The United Kingdom, Switzerland and Spain. He has worked with prestigious musicians such as Frank Wess,...
Ray Anderson
"If I ever had a home, it was the slide trombone" says Ray Anderson. Although the perennial poll- winner (6 times in Down Beat's Critics Poll!) is indeed at home with the "slip-horn", his unique music is now being heard all over the world....
Reggie Watkins
Reggie Watkins was born and raised in West Virginia and has played trombone for eighteen years. After attending West Virginia University for Jazz Performance he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to become a staple on the music scene....Rene Laanen
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Rick Davies
Originally from Albuquerque, NM, Rick Davies moved to New York City in the late 1970s and worked there a musician for more than twenty years before joining the faculty at SUNY Plattsburgh in 2000. Davies has primarily focused his...
Rick Faulkner
Trombonist and composer Rick Faulkner has made a reputation for himself on the New York City jazz and world music scenes for his rich, expansive sound, no holds barred playing style and infectious, soulful compositions. As a...
Rick Parker
"Young trombonist Rick Parker is yet another powerful young jazz musician to be reckoned with." (Marc Meyers, All About Jazz) Since relocating to New York in August of 2001, Rick Parker has performed at several of the city’s major...
Rick Trolsen
Freelance Trombonist New Orleans La. 1984-Present - Featured performances with all walks of the local music life has proved Rick Trolsen to be versatile and at ease with contemporary and traditional jazz, blues, reggae, big bands, show...
Rico Rodriguez
One of the most prolific session players of Jamaica's pre- ska era, trombonist Rico Rodriguez recorded both as a solo artist and as an honorary member of The Specials. He is a highly regarded musician both in England and his homeland of...Rob McConnell
Robert Murray Gordon (Rob) McConnell is a Canadian jazz valve trombonist, composer, arranger, music educator and recording artist. Rob McConnell took up the valve trombone in high school, and began his performing career in the early...
Robin Eubanks
Robin Eubanks is the premier jazz trombonist of his generation. Whether performing with his groups, EB3 or Mental Images, or with the critically acclaimed Dave Holland Quintet and Big Band--with whom he was an original member- Robin is...Rodger Fox
Rodger Dennis FOX Profile: Self-directed, enthusiastic educator, with a passionate commitment to student development in learning and performance experience. Lead by example and motivate and encourage people to extend themselves...Roland Barber
Twins Rahsaan and Roland Barber, saxophonist and trombonist, respectively, are committed to continuing the legacy of jazz through their efforts as composers, performers, bandleaders and educators. Though still in their early twenties, the...Ron L'Herault
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Produced Bill Evans "Homecoming" for Fantasy. Frequent freelance trombonist in New Orleans SONO Performer at European jazz fests, 1989 - 2000 Now living in the Philippines Professor of Music at University of the Philippines Media...
Ron Westray
One of the most highly regarded trombonist of his generation, Ron Westray continues to expand upon the legacy set before him with his CD release, Medical Cures For The Chromatic Commands Of The Inner City on Blue Canoe...
Roswell Rudd
Roswell Rudd (born Roswell Hopkins Rudd, Jr. in Sharon, Connecticut, on November 17, 1935) is an American jazz trombonist. Although skilled in all styles of jazz (including dixieland, which he performed while in college), he is known...Ryan Fraley
I am a composer and trombonist. I work in several capacities for the FJH Music company, a publisher of educational materials and music. Along with drummer Ralph Johnson and vocalist Lydia McAdams, I am the cofounder of "Wave Mechanics...
Ryan Keberle
Few musicians have managed to navigate the richly varied avenues of New York City’s abundant music scene with the same passion and adaptability as trombonist and composer Ryan Keberle. Since his arrival in 1999, Keberle’s diverse...Ryan Snow
Ryan Snow is a trombonist, improviser and composer living in Brooklyn, NY. Since moving to Brooklyn in 2005 he has been involved in innumerable musical projects ranging from free improvisation to traditional jazz to experimental rock to...
Samuel Blaser
Jazz trombonist and composer Samuel Blaser, who has earned serious attention and enthusiastic praise over the last few years for his daring virtuosity and engaging improvisations, advances his artistry to even greater heights on his new...Sara Jacovino
NYC based trombonist Sara Jacovino is an ambitious young composer and arranger who cut her teeth in the renowned One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Hailed by the likes of David Baker as having a completely unique...
Sarah Morrow
Discovered by Ray Charles, trombonist Sarah Morrow is the first female instrumentalist to become a member of his orchestra. She toured with the legend from November 1995 through May 1997 and left the group to tour and perform with Foley...Scot Ray
Multi-instrumentalist Scot Ray is an active and innovative musician/composer. Equally fluid on trombone, tuba, and dobro slide guitar, Ray has been featured on over five dozen recordings. Ray completed a degree in music from California...
Scott Reeves
Scott Reeves is a trombonist, alto flugelhornist, composer, arranger, author, and college jazz educator. A Chicago native, he attended Indiana University where he received his B.M. in trombone and his M.M. in jazz studies. His teachers...
Scott Whitfield
Scott Whitfield (trombonist, composer, arranger, and vocalist) is internationally recognized for his work with many contemporary big bands, including the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra and the new edition of Johnny Griffin’s Big Soul...Shaq
Rastaman Vibration !!!!
Shawn Bell
Shawn began his musical journey at the age of ten in his home town of Dowagiac, Michigan. He excelled in all things musical including his school’s band program, local and state honor bands, and any other playing opportunities he could...
Slide Hampton
Slide Hampton's distinguished career spans decades in the evolution of jazz. At the age of 12 he was already touring the Midwest with the Indianapolis-based Hampton Band, led by his father and comprising other members of his musical...Stan Bock
Stan Bock was born into a musical family. His father was a cornet player and High School band director while his mother was a singer and pianist that also taught private piano students. During his schooling, Stan was always playing in...Stephen Ewart
Stephen has played music professionally for the past 30 years, sharing the stage with the likes of Australian music legends Paul Kelly, Jo Jo Zep and Kids in the Kitchen. Stephen has recorded, produced and released two solo albums with...Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith is a trombone player and composer living in Austin, Texas. He received his Bachelor's degree in Jazz Studies with an emphasis in arranging from the University of North Texas in December of 2002. He was a member of the world...
Steve Davis
Steve Davis is widely regarded as one of today's leading improvisors on the trombone. His lyrical, hard-swinging style first gained him broad recognition during the 1990's while working with the bands of jazz legends Art Blakey, Jackie...
Steve Swell
Born in Newark, NJ, Steve Swell has been an active member of the NYC music community since 1975. He has toured and recorded with many artists from mainstreamers such as Lionel Hampton and Buddy Rich to so called outsiders as Anthony...Steve Traylor
Steve Traylor (bass trombone, tuba, & trombone), in addition to his vigorous schedule as a free-lance musician, is the Director of Bands and Fine Arts Recruiter of Central Wyoming College in Riverton, Wyoming. Steve’s educational...
Steve Turre
One of the world's preeminent jazz innovators, trombonist and seashellist Steve Turre, has consistently won both the Readers' and Critics' polls in JazzTimes, Downbeat, and Jazziz for Best Trombone and for Best Miscellaneous...Steve Wiest Big Band
Jazz trombonist Steve Wiest is in great demand as a featured artist, composer/arranger and clinician. Throughout the U.S., he is enjoying success and critical acclaim as he pursues an ambitious performing schedule while continuing to...Steven Witser
STEVEN WITSER joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Principal Trombone in September 2007. Formerly Assistant Principal Trombone and acting Principal Trombone of The Cleveland Orchestra, Witser also served as the Orchestra's Assistant...
TerenceHsieh
Terry Hsieh is a senior double degree student in Jazz trombone and East Asian Studies at Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory, who hails from a diverse range of teachers and styles. As a trombonist, he began studying under Duke...
Terry Hsieh
Terry Hsieh is a senior double degree student in Jazz trombone and East Asian Studies at Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory, who hails from a diverse range of teachers and styles. As a trombonist, he began studying under Duke...
The Blowpipes
The Blowpipes: a brass ensemble deranging traditional music and tumbling into free improvisation, with the odd poem thrown in. Ultra-versatile, creative ensemble now available for adding charm to convivial/creative/corporate events:...The Chad Fisher Group
Chances are, audiences have seen the seven young men who comprise The Chad Fisher Group without even realizing it. From Chad Fisher and Gary Wheat backing The Temptations at Radio City Music Hall, to guitarist Steve Lewis' recent...Thomas Hulten
Thomas Hultén is a jazz and classical trombone player, arranger and composer. Thomas is currently Acting Principal trombone with the Houston Grand Opera. He is also recording a solo-CD to be released by the Tierra Studios label by...
Thomas Matta
Thomas Matta boasts a body of work as a musician that spans an impressive spectrum of genres, styles, and disciplines. An active performer, Thomas has performed extensively across North America, Europe, and New Zealand, and is one of the...Thurman Green
Born in Texas... died in Los Angeles following a trip to Europe. More later.Tom Johnson
Tom Johnson is excited about his latest project, the Shark quintet. “I think I’ve found a format where I can really explore what I want to express”, he explains. The band has an unusual instrumentation: trombone, two saxes, double...Tom Malone
Tom "Bones" Malone began his professional career on a job playing lead trumpet with Brenda Lee at a club in Jackson, MS, while enrolled at the University of Southern Mississippi. In response to a call from Warren Covington, leader of The...
Tom McIntosh
Trombonist, composer and arranger Tom (Mac) McIntosh was born and raised in Baltimore. After a stint with the army, he attended Juilliard and later became an active participant in the New York jazz scene as a trombone player and writer....Tom Plsek
Trombone explorer Tom Plsek has been stretching trombones and our concepts of them for years. His compositions include pieces for ensembles and solo trombone often incorporate improvisation, technology, and performance art.Tom...
Tom Smith
Tom Smith is a five time Senior Fulbright Professor of Music at the Romanian National University of Music, Lecturer of Social and Political Affairs in the School of American Studies at the University of Bucharest, Tibiscus University in...Tom Walsh
Born & raised — classically — in St John’s, Newfoundland, Tom Walsh lived & worked in Toronto for more than ten years before rebooting in Montréal. He’s performed &/or recorded improvisational or popular music with/for such...
Tommy Dorsey
Trombonist Thomas "Tommy" Dorsey was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, the younger brother of famed jazz clarinetist, Jimmy Dorsey. In early years he was equally well-known as both trumpet and trombone player, recording several hot jazz...
Tricky Sam Nanton
A native of the West Indies, Nanton joined the Ellington orchestra in 1926, as a trombonist. He was a key player in the development of the bands overall sound and also remembered for his use of the plunger mute. Joe Nanton, was born, in...Trombone Poetry
Paul Taylor has been gigging, touring the planet and recording with jazz, African and Latin bands for decades, especially with Roberto Pla's Latin Ensemble and Snowboy & The Latin Section, and with his own trio, The Blowpipes. His latest...
Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews
Since the release of their Grammy®-nominated 2010 debut album, Backatown, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue have grown creatively while winning hordes of new fans performing nonstop on five continents. Their latest album, For True, offers...
Urbie Green
Martin trombonist Urban (Urbie) Green, known as the trombonist's trombonist, is one of the true greats of jazz, among the elite of the world's trombone players. Urbie Green has toured with Woody Herman, Gene Krupa and Frankie Carle and has...
Vincent Gardner
Vincent Gardner (born in Chicago, Illinois) is an trombonist and composer. As a bandleader, Gardner has released four albums under the SteepleChase record label. He performs with his own groups frequently, in addition to being the lead...Vladimir Sucic
Was First trombonist in Big Band HRT Zagreb Croatia and later I play Basstrombone. I played in big band of Ernie Wilkins, played with Kai Winding, John Lewis, Art Farmer, Lucky Thomson. Sal Nistico, Johnny Griffin, Leo Wright, Slide...Wayne Travillion
Wayne Travillion comes from musical family, his father a church organist and pianist, his sister a piano performance graduate of the University of Oregon. In fifth grade Wayne into started trombone. It was a natural for him. Whenever...
Wayne Wallace
Coming soon.William C. (Bill) Rank
Bill Rank is most famous for having participated on some classic recordings with Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer in the 1920's. He began his professional career in 1921, playing with Collins' Jazz Band in Florida and then in...
William Carn
Trombonist William Carn has emerged as one of Canada’s leading contemporary jazz composers and performers. He has performed and recorded with jazz artists such as Rob McConnell, Randy Brecker, David Binney, Kenny Wheeler, Barry Harris,...
William Cepeda
William Cepeda - trombone, composer, producer William Cepeda comes from a well known family rooted in music. The Familia Cepeda is famous for their performances of folkloric music with African roots, the ‘Bomba,’ and as keepers of...William Esterling
From the State of Delaware. Main teacher has been Dr. Carolton Cannon Jr.
Wolter Wierbos
Wolter Wierbos is considered one of the world’s leading trombone players. He has played throughout Europe, Canada, USA and Asia. Wierbos has many awards to his name, including the Podiumprijs for Jazz and Improvised music and the most...
Wycliffe Gordon
Wycliffe Gordon enjoys an extraordinary career as a performer, conductor, composer, arranger, and educator, receiving high praise from audiences and critics alike. Gordon tours the world performing hard-swinging, straight-ahead jazz for...
