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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.
This page lists classical pieces in the trombone repertoire, including solo works, concertenti and chamber music of which trombone plays a significant part. Solo trombone [ edit ]
Bebop was a faster form of swing that was played for its own sake, as opposed to swing jazz, which was played for dancing. In this era, the trombone was less often played as a solo instrument, as many of the passages in the music were too technically fast for the playing style that had developed during the swing era, as that style was held back ...
He is the son of Carver Clark Gayton [1] and Mona Marie Lombard [2] and is the great-grandnephew of the legendary New Orleans musician, Manuel "Fess" Manetta. [17]The first two professionally trained musicians on his maternal side were Jules and Deuce Manetta who founded the Pickwick Brass Band and played cornet and trombone, respectively.
"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]
He played trombone on The Wiz and, with the Seawind Horns including Jerry Hey, on Michael Jackson's albums Off the Wall and Thriller. He also acted as a composer for Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. Bill Reichenbach is a Greenhoe Trombones Performing Artist, [5] performing on a GC5-2R-TIS Bass Trombone with Tuning-in-Slide. [6]
A few years later he switched to trombone. [1] He played with many jazz, dance, and parade bands in New Orleans. He never learned to read music, but could quickly pick up tunes and invent a part for his instrument. He first went to Chicago in 1919 with a band led by Ragbaby Stevens, then worked on riverboats going up and down the Mississippi River.
From 1985 to 1995, Havens played with the Great Pacific Jazz Band along with Bob Ringwald (lead vocals/piano), Don Nelson (saxophone), and Zeke Zarchy (trumpet). In 2005, he performed with the North Carolina Pops Orchestra at Campbell University , with fellow Welk star Ava Barber , in a benefit concert raising money for victims of Hurricane ...