If you’ve never heard of a bass trombone, you’re probably not alone. It usually makes its home in the back row of the orchestra with the other low brass instruments, rarely getting any solo time. “The ...

Chicago Symphony Orchestra bass trombone Charles Vernon didn’t think small when he asked composer James Stephenson to write a concerto for him. “I said: ‘I want something that’s this wonderful piece, ...

It’ll be a homecoming of sorts when an Iowa native musician returns to Ames to perform this weekend. John Engelkes grew up in Parkersburg and now plays bass trombone with the San Francisco Symphony.

This guy ‘played’ Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee on bass trombone, and trolled us all. Rimsky-Korsakov was a master of orchestration. His buzzing orchestral interlude, written for his opera ...

WASHINGTON – It’s official: A few hundred of your trombone-playing neighbors are going to be in the Guinness World Records. Guinness judges have certified that 368 trombones officially played “76 ...