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Glenn Ferris (born 1950) Carl Fontana (1928–2008) Bruce Fowler (born 1947) Curtis Fowlkes (born 1950) Hugh Fraser (1958–2020) ... List of jazz trombonists.
Johnson's work in the 1940s and 1950s demonstrated that the slide trombone could be played in the bebop style; as trombonist Steve Turre has summarized, "J. J. did for the trombone what Charlie Parker did for the saxophone. And all of us that are playing today wouldn't be playing the way we're playing if it wasn't for what he did.
Jack Teagarden was born in Vernon, Texas, United States. [3] His brothers Charlie and Clois "Cub", as well as his sister Norma also became professional musicians. His first public performances were in movie theaters, where he was accompanied by his mother, who was a pianist.
The free jazz movement, coming to prominence in the late 1950s, spawned very few standards. Free jazz's unorthodox structures and performance techniques are not as amenable to transcription as other jazz styles. However, "Lonely Woman" (1959) a blues by saxophonist Ornette Coleman, is perhaps the closest thing to a standard in free jazz, having ...
Robert Edward "Bob" Brookmeyer (December 19, 1929 – December 15, 2011) was an American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer.Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Brookmeyer first gained widespread public attention as a member of Gerry Mulligan's quartet [2] from 1954 to 1957.
He learned jazz and popular tunes from the beginning. He started to play trombone, which both older brothers played, when he was about 12. He listened to trombonists Tommy Dorsey, J. C. Higginbotham, Jack Jenney, Jack Teagarden, and Trummy Young, but said he was more influenced by the styles of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Lester Young.
21 Trombone. 22 Trumpet. 23 Tuba. 24 Vibraphone. 25 Violin. ... This is a list of jazz musicians by instrument based on existing articles on Wikipedia. Do not enter ...
Higginbotham led several bands in the 1950s in Boston and Cleveland, [1] appeared regularly at the Metropole in New York between 1956 and 1959, and led his own Dixieland band there in the 1960s. He also appeared on the DuMont series Jazz Party (1958), aired on WNTA-TV .