Though the vocalizing of jazz lines and effects on wind instruments is famously attributed to saxophones, cogent arguments can be made for trombones, as well. The large traditional trombone embouchure ...

Brian Allen is from Lake Jackson, Texas where part of this solo trombone album was recorded. He studied with some of the masters of avant-garde /free jazz such as Roswell Rudd and Ellery Eskelin. To ...

For all of the progressive funk-meets-rock-meets-jazz-meets-blues fusion of Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue’s kinetic opening-night show at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience, the song that ...

How New Orleans was Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue's 2015 New Orleans Jazz Fest finale at the Acura Stage? It encompassed the 9th Ward, the 6th Ward, Treme, a Neville, a Meter, and Drew Brees. The ...

History can lift you up or weigh you down. It can be a mountain to stand on or a sack of stones upon your back. This is especially true in a town where musical history is as rich and omnipresent as it ...

He was a fixture on the New York jazz scene since shortly after his arrival in 1957. He also made his mark as a composer. By Giovanni Russonello Curtis Fuller, a trombonist and composer whose ...