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This is an alphabetical list of jazz trombonists for whom Wikipedia has articles. ... Troy Andrews (Trombone Shorty; born 1987) David Baker (1931–2016) Dan Barrett ...
He wrote a book of original exercises and études for jazz musicians, published later by Hal Leonard. A biography, titled The Musical World of J. J. Johnson, was published in 2000. On February 4, 2001, he died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. [7] His funeral in Indianapolis drew jazz musicians, friends and family from around the country.
Helen Elizabeth Jones Woods (October 9 or November 14, 1923 – July 25, 2020) was an American jazz and swing trombone player renowned for her performances with the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. She was inducted into the Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
Teagarden's trombone style was largely self-taught, and he developed many unusual alternative positions and novel special effects on the instrument. He is usually considered the most innovative jazz trombone stylist of the pre-bebop era – Pee Wee Russell once called him "the best trombone player in the world". [12]
Trombone first saw use in the jazz world with its entrance into traditional jazz where it played along with the chord changes, often connecting the seven to third or third to root resolutions of cadences, allowing the other musicians of the group to improvise along with it. In a standard dixie group, the players marched through the streets or ...
21 Trombone. 22 Trumpet. 23 Tuba. 24 Vibraphone. 25 Violin. 26 Vocal. 27 References. ... This is a list of jazz musicians by instrument based on existing articles on ...
Fuller developed a passion for jazz after one of the nuns took him to see Illinois Jacquet and his band, with J. J. Johnson on trombone. [ 3 ] Fuller attended a public school in his hometown, along with Paul Chambers , Donald Byrd , Tommy Flanagan , Thad Jones , and Milt Jackson . [ 4 ]
William Russell Watrous III (June 8, 1939 – July 2, 2018) [1] was an American jazz trombonist. He is perhaps best known for his rendition of Sammy Nestico's arrangement of the Johnny Mandel ballad "A Time for Love", which he recorded on a 1993 album of the same name.