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Schmitt Music is an American retail company which specializes in acoustic pianos, digital pianos, band and orchestra instruments, guitars and other musical instruments, sheet music and accessories, as well as offering services such as instrument repair and music instruction. The company operates 9 stores in five states.
Dennis toured with Mingus in 1956. He published an essay, "The History of the Trombone," in Metronome. [6] In the late 1950s Dennis returned to his big band roots, joining Buddy Rich in 1959 after stints with Benny Goodman (with whom he travelled to the Soviet Union in 1962) and Woody Herman. In the 1960s, Dennis often performed with Gerry ...
This is a list of notable performers of rock music and other forms of popular music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters, or in other closely related roles, who died in 2024.
Richard John Hyde (July 4, 1936 – July 15, 2019), sometimes credited as Slyde Hyde, [1] [2] was an American trombonist who played several brass and woodwind instruments. He was a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame.
The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2020.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Sheila Tracy (née Lugg; 10 January 1934 – 30 September 2014) was a British broadcaster, writer, musician, and singer. She began her career as a trombone player during the 1950s, in all-female bands.
Barton also acted as a substitute for Kenton's drummer on occasion and in June 1962 he gave up a trombone chair and became the band's drummer recording on Adventures in Time in September 1962, as well as four subsequent Kenton releases. [2] He eventually left the band in late 1963 to pursue a wider music career in Los Angeles.
Christopher Rouse (BM 1971 [8]), winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Trombone Concerto Vijay Seshadri (BA 1974), winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for 3 Sections George Walker (1941, honorary degree 1983), composer, first African-American [ 9 ] to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music (1996, for Lilacs )