Paul Amundson of Frost, Minn. warms up playing a special valve trombone, which has been in his family for 100 years, on Wednesday with the New Horizons Band at The Music Man Square in Mason City.

Doane, 82, suffered a stroke in 2001 that paralyzed his left side, and plays a valve trombone because he can no longer hold a slide trombone. Don Doane performs in a park in Portland in 1975.

Rob McConnell, a celebrated composer, arranger and valve trombonist who led the Boss Brass, one of Canada’s best and best-known big bands, has died. He was 75. McConnell, a three-time Grammy ...

Rob McConnell (valve trombonist, arranger, composer, big band leader) was born on February 14, 1935 in London, Ontario, and passed away on May 1, 2010 in Toronto, Ontario at the age of 75 McConnell ...

On stage: Valves Meet Slide, a quintet with two trombones and a killer rhythm section. I first heard this group last November and I liked them a lot.

Bob Brookmeyer, a master of the rarely played valve trombone who was also an influential jazz composer, bandleader and teacher, died Dec. 15 at a hospital in New London, N.H. He was 81. His wife ...

A trombone with six valves? “I don’t know if anyone played this ever,” the Lebanese French trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf said the other day at the Met, where he was taking in a display of ...

The Bolden Band around 1905. (Top: Jimmy Johnson (bass), Bolden (cornet), Willy Cornish (Valve Trombone), Willy Warner (Clarinet) Bottom: Brock Mumford (Guitar), Frank Lewis (Clarinet)). The ...