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In instruments such as the trombone and slide whistle, moving the slide is the way to select the note while playing. Attempts to adapt other wind instruments to use slides instead of tone holes, keys or valves have been tried; for example a slide saxophone was invented in the 1920s by Chicago instrument maker Reiffel & Husted. [1]
The Superbone can be played as a slide trombone, a valve trombone, or in combination. Using the slide and valves in combination requires the slide positions to be adjusted, just as when using the trigger of an F attachment on a tenor or bass trombone. Using the slide with the first and third valves engaged has the same effect as using an F ...
Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden (August 20, 1905 – January 15, 1964) [1] was an American jazz trombonist and singer. [2] Initially, he was a sideman for Paul Whiteman's orchestra, and later for his lifelong friend Louis Armstrong, playing in Louis Armstrong's All-Stars from 1946 to 1951.
Although rare on the E ♭ alto trombone, a valve attachment usually lowers the instrument a perfect fourth into B ♭, providing the first five or six positions from the tenor trombone slide. Some alto models have what is called a trill valve , providing a small loop of tubing that lowers the instrument by only a minor or major second, into D ...
Art Farmer & Slide Hampton in Concert (1984) World of Trombones is an album by American trombonist, composer and arranger Slide Hampton , recorded in 1979 and first released on the West 54 label.
The trombone having a slide instead of valves or strings or holes for playing had difficult positioning themselves, and tended to sit in the back of the trailer, gaining the name "Tailgate Trombone". This style of playing included many trombone specific techniques such as growling, scoops, falls, and slides.
Ed Byrne was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, in 1946. [2]Since the 1970s, Byrne played trombone as a sideman alongside many of the New York jazz scene's most well-known jazz artists (e.g., Chet Baker, Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Charlie Mingus, Eddie Palmieri, Willie Colon, Manu Dibango, and many others).
Trummy Young (right) and Jimmie Lunceford, early 1940s Young, left, shaking hands with Louis Armstrong at a 1955 concert in Oslo. James "Trummy" Young (January 12, 1912 – September 10, 1984) [1] was an American trombonist in the swing era.