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Website. tromboneshorty.com. Troy Andrews (born January 2, 1986), also known by the stage name Trombone Shorty, is a musician, most notably a trombone player, from New Orleans, Louisiana. His music fuses rock, pop, jazz, funk, and hip hop.
Seventy-Six Trombones. "Seventy-Six Trombones" is a show tune and the signature song from the 1957 musical The Music Man, by Meredith Willson, a film of the same name in 1962 and a made-for-TV movie in 2003. The piece is commonly played by marching bands, military bands, and orchestras. [1][2]
The valve trombone emerged concurrently with the invention of valves in the early 19th century. Most early instruments retained the shape and form of the slide trombone, employing three valves with the tubing arranged in place of the slide; others used the new valve mechanism as an opportunity to explore different configurations while retaining the overall cylindrical bore and bell profile.
The trombone (German: Posaune, Italian, French: trombone) is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate. Nearly all trombones use a telescoping slide mechanism to alter the pitch instead of the valves used by ...
Musician. Instrument (s) Trombone, vocals. Years active. 1920–1964. Weldon Leo " Jack " Teagarden (August 20, 1905 – January 15, 1964) [1] was an American jazz trombonist and singer. [2] According to critic Scott Yanow of Allmusic, Teagarden was the preeminent American jazz trombone player before the bebop era of the 1940s and "one of the ...
God's Trombones. God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse is a 1927 book of poems by James Weldon Johnson patterned after traditional African-American religious oratory. African-American scholars Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West have identified the collection as one of Johnson's two most notable works, the other being Autobiography of an ...
Caldecott Honor. ISBN. 978-1-41-971465-8. Trombone Shorty is an autobiographical picture book written by Troy Andrews, with illustrations by Bryan Collier. It tells the story of how Andrews grew up in New Orleans and started playing the trombone at an early age.
Howard J. Buss, Odyssey for 4 Trombones (1987), Levi's Dream for 4 Trombones (2011), Brom Bones for 8 Trombones (2010), Showdown for 10 Trombones (1987), Prayer for 12 Trombones (2015), Trombone Graffiti for 4 Trombones (2016), Vladislav Blazhevich, Impromptu for 12 Trombones (1915), Fantasy for 12 Trombones (1920s)